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The Scottish Institute for Policing Research & Missing People seminar Joe Apps Dr Llian Alys. www.npia.police.uk/mpb. UK Missing Persons Bureau. NPIA business plan Specialist operational support services Cost effectiveness and reducing bureaucracy Critical IT services Transition
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The Scottish Institute for Policing Research & Missing People seminar Joe Apps Dr Llian Alys www.npia.police.uk www.npia.police.uk/mpb
UK Missing Persons Bureau • NPIA business plan • Specialist operational support services • Cost effectiveness and reducing bureaucracy • Critical IT services • Transition • Principles • Protecting those at risk of harm • Minimising distress and ensuring high quality services • Prosecuting those who perpetrate or pose a risk of harm www.npia.police.uk
Outcomes • Effective safeguarding of missing people • Reduction in numbers of missing • National consistency of safeguarding responses • Collection and promulgation of good practice • Cost savings and cost efficiencies • Bureaucracy reduction • National picture of missing www.npia.police.uk
Services and objectives • Services • National and international point of contact • Centre for information exchange and expertise • Integrated operational services • Objectives • Safeguarding – tactical advice and support • Policy and research • Leading and developing staff • Transition www.npia.police.uk
Research Internal • Preliminary review of missing adult cases • Risk assessment and the Grampian Research External • Alzheimer’s Safe Return Project • Arts and Humanities Research Council – Forensic Archaeology and search www.npia.police.uk
Cost effectiveness • Good practice • NGO-conducted return interviews • MARAC-style meetings re. the top ten repeat missing persons • protocols with NHS establishments and children’s homes • direct inputting • dedicated missing persons coordinators • Savings – up to a third of expenditure on missing incidents • Missing Persons Diagnostic Tool • The Sussex Pilot www.npia.police.uk
Contact details • Dr Llian Alys - UK Missing Persons Bureau +44 1256 602411 or +44 7860 405009 llian.alys@npia.pnn.police.uk • Joe Apps - UK Missing Persons Bureau +44 1256 602950 or +44 7717 880703 joe.apps@npia.pnn.police.uk www.npia.police.uk