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In reply to the discussion: (1) How Unsolved Missing Person Cases Are Solved (Pt. 1) [View all]AmyStrange
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Newborn baby and woman 'close to death' among 13,000 people reported missing in West Midlands in past year
Ben Perrin
Specialist West Midlands Police Locate Teams - based in Solihull and Wednesfield - receive one missing person report every 40-minutes, but helped reunite thousands of missing people with their loved ones in 2020.
Officers recorded a total of 12,669 missing people reports, with almost 1,500 graded "high risk" meaning there were very serious concerns about the persons well-being.
This includes children, pensioners, people with dementia or another vulnerability, while others may be experiencing a mental health crisis or those believed to be a self-harm or suicide risk, police said.
The oldest misper" report police had last year was a 97-year-old man and the youngest a baby just a few weeks old. In another case officers tracked down and save a vulnerable woman, who was "close to death", at a derelict house in Smethwick.
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