ACT Policing marks National Missing Persons Week
ACT Policing is supporting National Missing Persons Week (28 July to 3 August 2024) by highlighting the 14 active long-term missing persons cases in the ACT.
National Missing Persons Week (NMPW) is an annual campaign that seeks to raise awareness of long-term missing persons cases across Australia.
Every year, about 50,000 people are reported missing to police. Almost all are found safe and well, but some remain missing for more than three months.
The ACT currently has 14 long-term missing people, including two missing overseas.
ACT Policing Detective Acting Inspector Adam Rhynehart said NMPW aims to highlight some of the hundreds of long-term missing persons cases across the country and hopefully find answers for those left behind.
“Police are always searching but we cannot do it without help from the community. I ask anyone with any information – no matter how big or small – to contact Crime Stoppers,” Detective Acting Inspector Rhynehart said.
“The information you provide could be the key to giving their families some much needed answers.”
More information on missing persons can be found at:
www.police.act.gov.au/crime/missing-persons
A long-term missing person is a person missing for a period of three months or more.
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