Missing Persons
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/26/004416/Y
Version Date: 24/03/2026
The Performance Analysis Department has provided the following information:
Performance Analysis have searched the Niche Crime Universe for Missing Person reports created between 21/05/2015 (Niche’s implementation) and 31/12/2025.
Can you please provide me with the Annual Statistics for reported missing persons cases from 2015-2025. I am seeking to understand how many were reported in each year.
|
Year |
Number of Missing Person Reports |
|
2015 |
2598 |
|
2016 |
4317 |
|
2017 |
5283 |
|
2018 |
6159 |
|
2019 |
6500 |
|
2020 |
5568 |
|
2021 |
5473 |
|
2022 |
5492 |
|
2023 |
4335 |
|
2024 |
2772 |
|
2025 |
2819 |
|
Total |
51316 |
Secondly, can you please provide me with statistics of how many in the same period from 2015-2025 were finalised and how many remained opened and unsolved.
For the below table, whether the missing person has returned has been determined by the ‘returned date field’, if the field is blank, they have not returned. The data below shows finalised occurrences.
|
Missing Person Returned/Occurrence Finalised |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
Total |
|
Not returned |
12 |
6 |
33 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
34 |
36 |
32 |
16 |
179 |
|
Returned |
2586 |
4311 |
5245 |
6155 |
6495 |
5561 |
5470 |
5455 |
4284 |
2694 |
2653 |
50909 |