Missing People is today calling for ‘urgent’ work to ensure that all reports made to the police and other agencies are treated on an equal footing.
Families whose loved ones have gone missing and professionals in related fields shared their experiences with Missing People, which concluded that more work is needed to understand the scale of the issue. The charity, which provides specialist support and a free, confidential phoneline, also called on police forces to review the way they handle reports.
‘We can also see the impact this has, both on the family reporting, and on the missing person themselves. We believe there now needs to be more research carried out to better understand the nature and scale of any discrimination faced, as well as to examine the over-representation of Black people in missing persons statistics.
Richard Okorogheye was a promising university student who left a huge void in his mum’s life after going missing in March 2021 The term ‘people of colour’ is used in the paper as an inclusive phrase to describe people from different racial groups who are not white.
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