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)