Missing People is delighted to announce that Chris Rollings will become the charity’s first Vice-Chair of Trustees.

 Chris Rollings is a Chief Superintendent with Leicestershire Constabulary, and until recently was in charge of missing persons for the Force, a role he had undertaken for the last ten years. He remains the chair of a National Group of over twenty Police Forces whose aim is to improve working practices with regard to missing persons investigations. Chris assisted with the introduction of Child Rescue Alert across the country and launched a computerised missing persons system, as well as a new way of working with local authority partners to review the top ten missing persons regularly.

John Reiss will remain as Chair of Trustees for another three-year term. For over 20 years John has consulted on financial management and corporate strategy to media and consumer industries. He is currently Executive Chairman of Premier Public Relations, Dubbs/EyeFrame, Creative Art Products and Peckhamplex and is active in film production.

Martin Houghton-Brown, chief executive of Missing People, said: “Missing People can only continue to increase its capacity to be a lifeline when someone disappears with strong leadership and good governance. It is therefore excellent news that John Reiss will continue to lead the charity as chair and is joined by one of the UK’s most experienced serving police officers in the field of missing persons, Chris Rollings.”