FOI 352651
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 352651
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 13th August 2024. Please find below the response to your request:
Please release the following information relating to people missing in your force area in the following time periods:
- 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
- 1 January 2024 to 31 May 2024
- How many individual children were reported missing to your force?
- How many individual adults were reported missing to your force?
- How many total missing incidents were reported to your force related to children going missing?
- How many total missing incidents were reported to your force related to adults going missing?
- How many missing incidents resulted in a fatality? Please provide the numbers for children and adults separately
- Please could you share the causes of death in those fatal cases
Reply
West Mercia Police holds some of the information you have requested.
Due to the system we can only access the data for 2024 up to 31st March and we are only able to provide summary fatality data.
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2023 |
2024 (to 31/3/24) |
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1. How many individual children were reported missing to your force? |
636 |
159 |
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2. How many individual adults were reported missing to your force? |
862 |
213 |
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3. How many total missing incidents were reported to your force related to children going missing? |
1337 |
232 |
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4. How many total missing incidents were reported to your force related to adults going missing? |
964 |
228 |
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5. How many missing incidents resulted in a fatality? Please provide the numbers for children/adults separately |
0 children 24 adults |
0 children 10 adults |
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6. Please could you share the causes of death in those fatal cases |
1 suspicious 23 non-suspicious |
all non-suspicious |