Missing Persons: Volunteers Supporting Law Enforcement

Every missing person report a law enforcement agency receives is different. But, whether it’s a child, a teenager, an adult, or a senior citizen who ran away, forgot to call home, wandered away, was abducted, or disappeared, all missing person investigations share a common element—the need for manpower to find the missing as quickly as possible. The more people looking for a missing person, the faster the person may be found. This publication provides a discussion of the differences between a runaway child and an abducted child; and an adult that abandons his or her life and an Alzheimer’s patient that wanders away from his caretaker. Volunteers can assist no matter the circumstances surrounding the disappearance.

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Publication Date: 2010