Missing Persons

(asked on 12th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on establishing a Missing Person’s Register; and what the timetable is for that register going live.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 20th March 2018

We are continuing to work with the National Policing Lead for Missing Persons through the Home Office National Law Enforcement Data Programme (NLEDP) to deliver a National Register for Missing Persons (NRMP).

Initially the register will be available to the police only. Work is ongoing to determine which relevant agencies, such as local authorities, could and should have access to the register to facilitate information exchange between the police and partners. This improved information exchange will contribute to significantly reducing the amount of time that an individual is missing and the harm that an individual comes to during a missing episode.

The current timetable, as agreed with the Police, would see the register introduced from mid-2019, allowing forces to manually record missing and associated found incidents on the register. Following this introduction, further functionality would be introduced, including sharing information beyond policing to other relevant agencies.

It is intended that the National Register for Missing Persons will enable the collection and display of information relating to risk categories.

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