Missing People Website

Information for health workers and police

Are you trying to identify someone?

• Unidentified alive?
• Identified but no known Next Of Kin?

Our Identification department can help with:

• Database Searches
• Forensic Artwork
• Case Publicity:
  
  
• posters
• media Appeals
• Missing People website

Unidentified

Individuals are sometimes taken, or present themselves, to hospital yet their identity cannot be established. Examples include unconscious patients or patients with mental health problems.

What to do next? - Checklist

• Register the case with local police and ensure a check of the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) is made as soon as possible.
• Immediately supply the Identification team of Missing People with full details for consideration of any possible matches with cases known to the charity.
• Consider the services of Missing People to assist in publicity , including poster production, media releases and website appeals.
  

Click here for contact details for the Identification department

Unknown Next of Kin

In some cases of individuals in hospital or care, their next of kin may not easily be found. If the individual's identity is known Missing People can check their national database to see if they have been reported missing by relatives, potentially enabling contact to be established.

If not, the individual can be registered on the database in case a relative searches for them in the future.

What to do next? - Checklist

Inform Missing People of the individual including:

• Full name
• Date of birth
• Brief circumstances (including state of health)
• Last known address
• Full contact details for record holder (e.g. the relevant nurse/doctor dealing with the patient and the ward and hospital)

Click here to inform Missing Persons of an unknown Next of Kin case