The Scottish Institute for Policing Research & Missing People seminar

Joe AppsDr Llian Alys

www.npia.police.uk/mpb

UK Missing Persons Bureau

• NPIA business plan– Specialist operational support services– Cost effectiveness and reducing bureaucracy– Critical IT services– Transition

• Principles– Protecting those at risk of harm– Minimising distress and ensuring high quality services– Prosecuting those who perpetrate or pose a risk of harm

Outcomes

• Effective safeguarding of missing people • Reduction in numbers of missing• National consistency of safeguarding responses• Collection and promulgation of good practice• Cost savings and cost efficiencies• Bureaucracy reduction• National picture of missing

Services and objectives

• Services– National and international point of contact– Centre for information exchange and expertise– Integrated operational services

• Objectives – Safeguarding – tactical advice and support– Policy and research– Leading and developing staff– Transition

Research

Internal• Preliminary review of missing adult cases• Risk assessment and the Grampian

Research

External• Alzheimer’s Safe Return Project• Arts and Humanities Research Council –

Forensic Archaeology and search

Cost effectiveness

• Good practice– NGO-conducted return interviews – MARAC-style meetings re. the top ten repeat missing

persons – protocols with NHS establishments and children’s homes– direct inputting– dedicated missing persons coordinators

• Savings – up to a third of expenditure on missing incidents

• Missing Persons Diagnostic Tool

• The Sussex Pilot

Contact details

• Dr Llian Alys - UK Missing Persons Bureau+44 1256 602411 or +44 7860 405009llian.alys@npia.pnn.police.uk

• Joe Apps - UK Missing Persons Bureau+44 1256 602950 or +44 7717 880703joe.apps@npia.pnn.police.uk