Missing Persons 953/23
FOI Reference: 953/2023
Request:
- How many missing persons incidents were recorded by the force between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023, broken down by the 19 official Census 2021 ethnic group classifications for the persons reported as missing?
- Please provide the data on missing persons incidents for 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 and for 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 using the older ethnicity classifications that forces previously used to report to the National Crime Agency UK Missing Persons Unit.
It would be much appreciated if you could please use the following tables to record the data to avoid misunderstandings. Please use Table 1 for question 1 and Table 2 for question 2.
For question 1, for any incidents that you only know the larger ethnic group, eg you know that missing person was Asian or Asian British but don’t know whether they were Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani etc, please still record them in the total for the group.
Response 1:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
Please note: The blank sections in the below table are where Dyfed Powys Police does not collate this data.
|
Large ethnic group |
Ethnic group |
Missing person incidents 2022/23 (total) |
|
Asian or Asian British |
Bangladeshi |
|
|
Asian or Asian British |
Chinese |
|
|
Asian or Asian British |
Indian |
|
|
Asian or Asian British |
Pakistani |
|
|
Asian or Asian British |
Any other Asian background |
|
|
Asian or Asian British |
Total Asian or Asian British |
2 |
|
Black, Black British, Caribbean or African |
Black African |
|
|
Black, Black British, Caribbean or African |
Black Caribbean |
|
|
Black, Black British, Caribbean or African |
Any other Black, Black British or Caribbean background |
|
|
Black, Black British, Caribbean or African |
Total Black, Black British, Caribbean or African |
18 |
|
Mixed or multiple ethnic groups |
Mixed White and Asian |
|
|
Mixed or multiple ethnic groups |
Mixed White and Black African |
|
|
Mixed or multiple ethnic groups |
Mixed White and Black Caribbean |
|
|
Mixed or multiple ethnic groups |
Any other Mixed or multiple ethnic background |
|
|
Mixed or multiple ethnic groups |
Total Mixed or multiple ethnic groups |
Not used |
|
White |
White English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British |
|
|
White |
White Irish |
|
|
White |
Gypsy Or Irish Traveller |
|
|
White |
Roma |
|
|
White |
Any other White background |
|
|
White |
Total White |
1229 |
|
Other ethnic group |
Arab |
|
|
Other ethnic group |
Any Other |
|
|
Other ethnic group |
Total Other ethnic group |
0 |
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
4 |
Response 2:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
|
Ethnicity |
Missing person incidents 2021-22 (total) |
Missing person incidents 2022-23 (total) |
Notes |
|
White - North European |
1093 |
1204 |
|
|
White - South European |
10 |
25 |
|
|
Black |
31 |
18 |
|
|
Asian |
5 |
2 |
|
|
Chinese, Japanese & SE Asian |
2 |
0 |
|
|
Middle Eastern |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Other/unknown |
1107 |
1128 |
Also included "not recorded" in this category |
|
Total |
2248 |
2381 |
|
It should be noted that owing to the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such matters the information provided may or may not be accurate. However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted that for these reasons this Force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 15/01/24)