Source · IOPC Learning Case

Actions taken following missing person’s report - Essex Police, March 2018

Essex Police Ref: 2018/103873 Recommended 9 Jul 2019 Response due 3 Sep 2019

Death and serious injury

On 25 January 2018 a woman called Essex Police to report that her son was missing. The incident was graded as a no-risk missing person as the son was a young adult and there were no warning markers. Police made some enquiries, including checking local hospitals, circulating details via local airwaves and informing CCTV of the young man’s description, Officers were sent to the home of the person he was believed to be with, but there was no reply. They …

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Recommendations

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National recommendation

The IOPC has recently made a number of local recommendations to forces around the implementation and understanding of College of Policing’s Authorised Professional Practice (APP) for missing persons. A subsequent review of relevant cases found several instances where the APP was not correctly understood by frontline staff, or where it was inconsistently applied and deviated from. We therefore recommend that the College of Policing takes action to review how the APP is working in practice and, if necessary, to revise the APP. Do you accept the recommendation? N/A

Addressed to: Essex Police

Linked bodies: Essex Police

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