Police website raises hope of identifying 1,000 mystery bodies

by liamssoft | January 4, 2013 at 11:09 am

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People go missing from all over the world for very different reasons, the national Missing Persons Bureau is the UK national and international point of contact for all missing adults and unidentified body cases. The Bureau is also a centre for information exchange and expertise on missing person issues.

They currently provide integrated operational services for all missing people, including children, in support of law enforcement and other agencies which is the driving force behind the work, has established a website containing images and identifying features of the individuals who have remained nameless for so many years, in the hope of closing some of the cases. The site is one of only a few such facilities in the world apart from the FBI.

As well as 1,029 men and women, the site contains details of 105 babies in unmarked graves, unclaimed by families, sometimes for decades.....Read more

Approximately 327,000 missing person reports – 110,000 of them concerning adults – are made to UK police each year. It amounts to almost 900 reports a day....Read more

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