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Family / Carer Details

We need your contact details so we can get in touch with you to talk about how our services work. We will discuss with you the best approach for publicity for your family member and all the other support we offer.

First Name(Required)

Last Name(Required)

It is important that we contact you to discuss appeals and offer support, for the most effective publicity of the person you're searching for

Your relationship to the missing person(Required)

Preferred method of contact

Mobile phone number(Required)

Home telephone number

Family Member's Email Address

Do you want to provide contact details of an additional person, e.g. so we can offer emotional and practical support?(Required)

For example, a second family member.

Yes

Relationship to the missing person (includes Friend)

First Name(Required)

Last Name(Required)

Mobile No.

Home Tel No.

Email Address

Do you want to provide contact details of one more person so we can offer emotional and practical support?

Yes

Relationship to the missing person (includes Friend)

First Name(Required)

Last Name(Required)

Mobile No.

Home Tel No.

Email Address

Request Missing People's targeted publicity

You can select details on the next page.

I want to use Missing People's Publicity

Confirm publicity consent (default yes)

Added to make the flow create publicity cases

Consent for publicity

Family Support (default yes)

Missing People supports families who have a missing loved one for whom the charity has raised publicity. By ticking this you give us permission to contact the family to offer family support.

Request Missing People contact the family or loved one to offer independent emotional and practical support

Do you give permission for Missing People to contact the family? (default yes)

Yes

About the Missing Person

Missing Person's First Name(Required)

Missing Person's Middle Name

Missing Person's Last Name(Required)

Age at disappearance (or estimate)(Required)

Town missing from - can be different from the home address.(Required)

We are able to support with publicity for those missing in the UK and for those missing abroad, if their missing case is held by a UK police team

County missing from - can be different from the home address.(Required)

Date of Last Contact (dd/mm/yyyy)(Required)

Day

Month

Year

Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy)(Required)

If unknown please enter 01/01/1931

Day

Month

Year

Gender(Required)

Police Reference Number of Missing Person Case(Required)

Police Force(Required)

Police Risk Assessment(Required)

Are there any additional concerns or vulnerabilities you think we should be aware of?

Circumstances of missing person's disappearance (1500 chars max)(Required)

Distinguishing features useful for visual identification

This can include how the person’s appearance might have changed since the photo was taken.

Missing Person's Mobile Phone No. (Include leading 0. No spaces in number)

Nationality

School and location, e.g. St. Atulph's, Purley

Employer, if any, and location.

Religion

Other Religion

About the Appeal

Appeal Options(Required)

A member of our team will be in touch to discuss what publicity options may be suitable for this situation. This may be covert publicity (only seen by professionals able to support with searching for a missing person) or covert and public publicity (seen by members of the general public).

Please share which option you think would be best.

Safeguarding Briefing Network ONLY (Covert)

Safeguarding Briefing Network AND public facing channels

Geographical areas and types of venues you would like us to target our appeals

e.g faith-based spaces, or places you believe the missing person often visits or may be recognised

Any further information

Please include any information that may help us target the appeal and provide support.

Please upload a head and shoulders image of the missing person. Max size 2MB(Required)

The photo needs to be a clear picture of the person's face from the shoulders up

Accepted file types: jpg, png, Max. file size: 2 MB.

Finally...

Our Appeals Service is open Monday to Friday, 10am-2pm. We will contact you as soon as possible once we process this referral.

If the person you're searching for is found, please let us know by emailing Appeals@missingpeople.org.uk. Thank you.

Do you have consent to request publicity? (default yes)

This can be from the family or the OIC.

Yes

Do you have permission to pass family contact information to Missing People? (default yes)

Missing People needs this so that we can keep the family informed of the progress of the publicity campaign.

Yes

To offer family support we need to know that you have permission to pass family contact information to us. See the question above. Thank you.

To request Family Support you must be able to answer YES to both the family support questions. If you cannot please exit the form or continue for publicity only.

[A red asterisk * indicates that a field must be completed.]

Urgency Assessment

Missing person is believed to be in immediate danger of serious harm or death

N/A

Urgency Assessment 2

The person lacks capacity (perhaps temporarily) to keep themselves safe

N/A

Urgency Assessment 3

A member of the public is likely to come across the missing person

N/A

Urgency Assessment OLD

The missing person’s life is believed to be in immediate danger of serious harm or death

The person lacks capacity (perhaps temporarily) to keep themselves safe

A member of the public is likely to come across the missing person

Would you like this case to be considered for a UMA?

Based on your assessment above, please make your choice here. Either way, please ensure any information relating to the above criteria is included in the Location and Circumstances and Risk sections which follow. Missing People needs this to assess the case.

Please consider this case for a UMA

Please do NOT consider this case for a UMA

Publicise the appeal on the Missing People website?

Yes

Share the appeal on Missing People social media?

Yes

Send out briefings (covert) AND publicly visible posters?

Yes

A high quality image of the missing person (ideally head and shoulders only) needs to be attached. Max. size is 2Mb each, If this does not upload or you want to provide more than one image please send them as attachments with an email to appeals@missingpeople.org.uk.

If the missing person is thought to be travelling on the national rail network, London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Croydon Tram Link, Midland Metro Tram System, Sunderland Metro or Glasgow Subway, we may be able to issue a briefing to British Transport Police via confidential briefing (including risk factors and levels). Should this missing person be considered for a briefing?

Alert BTP (for high or medium risk mispers)

Yes

Please outline geographical area and mode of transport the missing person may be using(Required)

To communicate with you Missing People will use a police group email, if any, that handles missing person cases, e.g. a Missing Persons Unit.

We will also use your personal police contact details.

We will use the most recent email address and phone number we have for the group you select below.

Avon and Somerset Group Contact(s)

Bedfordshire Group Contact(s)

Metropolitan Police Group Contacts

Group Status

Please make a selection here so that the form can be as helpful as possible.

We need your personal police email address to identify you on our database.

To Missing People users: If the person does not have an email address, please enter a random address, e.g. sadvtrgvpl@asvmjh.com. Do NOT enter any missingpeople.org.uk address. These addresses are used by the system and should not be allocated to anyone else.

To save yourself time now, please let us know tell us if you have supplied personal details before and we will use the contact data we have for you.

Referring Officer Details

I have entered my details on this form (or an earlier version) before

I wish to supply my details now

Please enter at least one of the following contacts details in the below boxes

Missing Person's Details

Please enter one or more of the following references.

PNC ID

THE ABOVE NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE APPEAL UNLESS YOU WANT TO WRITE AN ALTERNATIVE NAME IN THE FOLLOWING BOX, E.G. NICKNAME OR ALIAS. Please state the information exactly as you want it to appear.

Name for Appeal (if different from the above)

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WILL ALSO APPEAR ON THE REQUESTED APPEAL. Please state the information as you want it to appear.

Title

Do you want to enter other details?

These details can help identify the person and also help Missing People target the appeal.

Alias

Maiden Name

Home Address

House No

House / Building Name

Street

District

Town

County

Postcode

Country

Email Address

In the boxes below please include any information that may help us target publicity (e.g. locations they might attend related to religion, hobbies, school) and to provide support.

Hobbies and Interests

Please provide information about the person, typically a family member, who we will keep informed about the publicity campaign. We may also offer them family support.

Family Member's Title

Family Postal Address

House No.

House / Building Name

Street

District

Town

County

Postcode

Country

Family Member's Work Tel No.

Are you working with the missing person's family?

Yes

Are there any other agencies involved, such as Social Care?

Yes

Family Member's Title

Family Member's Work Tel No.

Family Member's Title

Family Member's Work Tel No.

Selections below concerning website, social media, posters and briefings (posters distributed privately) will be reviewed by Missing People in the light of the missing person's safety and the charity's 48 hr and 7 day publicity packages outlined earlier.

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