Who to call if an elderly person is missing. Internet, police, volunteers: who will help find the missing person. Property issues in the event of a missing person
When a person disappears, his relatives, friends, acquaintances begin to look for him. They turn to the police, where a search case is opened for each missing person. Employees of the criminal investigation department and other departments of the internal affairs bodies begin the search. Based on established practice, regardless of the reasons for the disappearance of a person, the search for the missing accelerates the amount of preliminary information about him.
Remember, most of the facts of an unknown disappearance occur with a clear disregard for the safety of life or the indifferent attitude of the people around.
The person left the house for the store and did not return home, left work and did not show up at the usual time, is delayed after training sessions, discos, did not reach the destination - any of these reasons for concern can be the reason for contacting the internal affairs authorities with a statement on the search for a missing person. Common sense suggests that, having felt anxiety for a loved one or loved one, something needs to be done.
In practice, it is enough to call the acquaintances of the missing person, detoxification departments (sobering-up stations) and other medical institutions or duty units of the internal affairs bodies in order to obtain the necessary information about his whereabouts.
A loyal attitude to alcohol often ends for a person with a bed in a sobering-up station, an unexpected attack of illness - hospitalization, a quick temper and legal nihilism can result in undesirable consequences on the part of law enforcement agencies. Having found out that among the patients of medical institutions detained in the internal affairs department of citizens there is a person who looks like a missing person, all that remains is to make sure that this is really him.
Regardless of the above circumstances of the disappearance, it is advisable to make a statement to the internal affairs authorities simultaneously with independent searches so that specialists can start the search.
Among the inhabitants, an erroneous opinion has been established that it is possible to apply to the police about the search for the missing person only after three days have passed since the moment the person disappeared. This is nothing more than a common misconception.
You can make a statement about the search in any police department, regardless of the place of residence, or the disappearance of a person. In any case, after compliance with the necessary formalities, the search materials will go to the direct executor.
Information about the disappearance of a person can be transferred to the police and by telephone.
It is strictly forbidden for duty officers to refuse to accept applications, moreover, the duty officer is obliged to immediately accept a statement about the disappearance of a person, regardless of the duration of his absence and the place of the alleged disappearance.
There is no time limit for submitting such an application. Employees are required to accept and register the application!
As a rule, a member of the Criminal Investigation Department will have a detailed discussion with you when the application is received.
At the first stage of search activities, any information about the missing person is important: his phone numbers, IMEI number of mobile phones, addresses of acquaintances and friends, data on habits and hobbies, places of work, sphere of communication, circumstances of disappearance.
Always pay attention to the clothes in which your relatives and friends left the house, and especially minor children and the elderly; where, with whom, by what route and on what issue they went. Do they have legal documents with them?
Be interested in the circle of acquaintances of your loved ones, their place of residence, telephones. Constantly teach children how to behave in unusual situations. Forbid meeting strangers, make sure that every fact of an unknown person contacting your child becomes known to you.
It is advisable to have data on the availability and movement of cash deposits from your loved ones.
If you have jewelry, expensive watches, other things that your loved ones constantly use, it is advisable to have a photograph of them at home and keep documents for numbered items.
If among your relatives there are people suffering from diseases that can lead to memory loss or orientation in the area, we recommend that you put notes with full installation data and the address of residence (registration) in the pockets of their clothes or sew such information to clothing items.
In some cases, his diaries and notebooks help find the missing person.
recall the signs of the missing person (height, build, hair color, facial features, gait, gestures), and special signs (the presence and location of scars, birthmarks, tattoos, physical disabilities, injuries that can cause memory loss), the presence of certain chronic diseases; blood type.
It is advisable to know in which clinic and which dentist the members of your family are treated by the missing person.
It is desirable to have information about the circle of communication of the missing person, the nature of the relationship, and especially the presence conflict situations, debt obligations, facts of non-return of funds, disposal of real estate, ongoing disputes to establish ownership.
If a loved one suffered from acute chronic diseases and there is a suspicion that the person became ill, then you need to call an ambulance. Everyone knows the phone number - 103. Doctors have an electronic database in which all calls are recorded, but in order to get the most accurate data, you need to provide in your request specific information: the route of movement, the approximate time of disappearance, and so on.
(Masanchi st., 55 a,). It receives information around the clock from hospitals, ambulances, medical sobering-up stations and morgues, as well as information about unidentified corpses and persons detained by the police department.
Recall that these: tourists disappeared in the mountains, girls, girls, young and old people, patients of psychiatric hospitals and prisoners, etc. disappeared. Many stories ended happily, and the "heroes" that social networks and the media wrote about were found safe and sound. But a number of cases shocked not only the residents of the city, but the whole country.
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What can you do yourself
First of all, search organizers need to remember that time works against them. It is necessary to act as quickly as possible, without stopping the search operations even for an hour.
First, it is necessary to determine the intended route of the missing person - the point of departure and the end point at which he did not arrive. If it succeeded - the probability of successful completion of the search
increases noticeably.
Identify the persons who saw the missing person last, interview them in order to find out the plans of the missing person for the near future.
Determine what he was wearing, what he had with him (large sums of money, valuables, conspicuous things), whether he was in a car.
Once the intended route of the missing person is determined, it is necessary to make inquiries about him in the following services:
1. Accident registration and hospitalization services
2. Reception departments (registries) of hospitals located near the route, as well as morgues.
3. Duty of the local department (management) of the traffic police - about accidents and persons affected by them.
4. Police departments along the route - about the detained persons, incl. sent to sobering-up stations. Later, it will also be necessary to bypass them in order to interview employees.
It is also necessary to write a statement about the loss of a person and take it to the police department. Remember that applications for missing people (except children) are accepted, as a rule, no less than three days after the disappearance.
After that, you must immediately begin to independently work out the route. Prepare photographs of the missing person, both portrait and full height. If possible, pick up photographs where his clothes most closely match those that he was wearing immediately before the disappearance.
Try to calculate what types of transport the missing person could use on this trip, where he got into it, made transfers, landed. Make an approximate timing of the route - it will be easier to set the numbers of buses and other
types of public transport in which the missing person could travel. By metro - BULLET to police stations at the stations of landing, transfer, disembarkation. Interrogate the cops there, try to find those who were on duty on the day of the disappearance. With you - photographs of the missing person, preferably both in full growth and portrait type.
By ground transport. Find out the appropriate modes of transport and route numbers. Calculate the approximate time when he could use one or another type of land transport. Further - to the bus-trolleybus-tram stations - there you pull up the attendants, find out the names of the drivers, conductors and controllers who could be on the desired segment of the route in the agreed period of time. Home addresses are unlikely to be given, but you can find out the time of their appearance at the station. Interview them ALL, and interrogate them carefully, with the presentation of photographs.
Bypass ALL police stations, on the territory of which there are:
- metro station
- subway station
- stop of the proposed ground public transport at the place of embarkation, transfer and disembarkation
- start and end point
If he was traveling by car, the timekeeping will help to find out which of the traffic police officers could see his car.
It is necessary to establish and carefully interrogate with the presentation of photographs of ALL police officers or traffic police, as well as drivers,
conductors and controllers of public transport, who at the calculated time were on the intended route and
could see the missing person.
Attention - be sure to pay attention to the reaction of the police officers interviewed by you.
Perhaps you will encounter a non-standard reaction - this should alert you.
For such events, it will be quite useful to stock up on money. And it is very useful, if possible, to involve an experienced detective from law enforcement agencies in the search team. It will be easier for him to find a language with all categories of respondents, and he knows how to ask questions. And of course, no instruction can replace the training and experience of a professional.
And finally - repeat the route of the missing. It is desirable - twice, in the dark and during the day. Carefully inspect the surroundings of the route - perhaps you will extract for yourself some additional information for reflection.
IF IT IS A MISSING CHILD, you can add to
the above the following:
Try to remember in what mood the child left home - were there any domestic quarrels, scandals, punishments?
Have there been any recent threats against them from any persons?
Have there been any changes in behavior or mood?
The presence of these factors could provoke a desire to hide, to leave.
Do you have relatives in remote areas?
Pay attention to the child's hobbies - people who have common hobbies - often meet, communicate. Sometimes they get together.
Football, hockey, basketball - the child could go to the match with his favorite team.
With whom from peers did you communicate in the previous days? Topics of conversation, hints, "secrets".
See if money or valuables are missing from your home.
Report everything to the officer.
In parallel with the actions of the police
(by notifying the security officer of ALL YOUR actions in advance):
Connect to the search as possible large quantity people (relatives, friends).
Photos on TV, on the Internet, on poles, porches.
Interview friends, teachers, classmates (Usually class teachers there is a list with coordinates), find out who was the last one to see the missing person.
Talk to them without the police, ask their parents for help.
At school, talk to the attendants, guards, watchmen, janitors.
Report the details to the officer in charge.
Regarding the child's possible trip "to the sea", "to the North Pole":
Look at their table, everything is on the table.
See if anything other than what is normally worn has disappeared.
Pay attention to the possible traces of preparation for the "journey".
If you have a computer - view the latest files, visited the latest sites, chats, forums.
Report the found traces of preparation for the "journey" to the detective.
Explore a possible route:
Chat with residents of permanent points on the route (such as stall sellers, garage regulars, janitors, builders, etc.)
Determine the passing transport and talk with the drivers, it is possible to agree with the nachgars or whoever is responsible for this, and post announcements in these trolleybuses.
If possible, ask the janitors (JECs, DEZs, REUs) to inspect the roofs of skyscrapers.
During searches, it may make sense to "stimulate" law enforcement officers.
It is worth looking around among relatives and acquaintances - all of a sudden there will be a “own” detective who will join the search and will work hard not out of fear, but out of conscience.
materials taken from the conference "crime and protection" on the server auto ru
Every day, up to 60 people are admitted to Moscow hospitals who, for one reason or another, cannot contact their loved ones or tell about themselves. Someone is hospitalized unconscious and without documents, someone is in shock and does not remember anything, while others simply do not want to say anything. Relatives and friends at this time are in a panic and often do not know what to do? The correspondent of "RG" tried to answer this question.
The sooner the better
No matter how trite it sounds, but the first thing in the event of the loss of a loved one is to calm down and pull yourself together. This advice is given by the police, psychologists and volunteers. Sometimes, instead of panic calling hospitals and the police, you just need to think carefully: when did a person disappear, where could he be, has this happened before?
You need to check the places where the missing person may be, call friends, acquaintances and colleagues: what if they know something. 90 percent of searches started on the first day of the loss are completed successfully. If you start looking on the third day, positive result achieved in only half of the cases. Therefore, it is important to act quickly, but judiciously - if you cannot find a person on your own, then you need to sound the alarm and call for help.
Google to the rescue
Let's start with actions that you can take on your own. One of the main assistants in this can be the "Find Me" service - this is a portal where information is collected about all people who, during hospitalization, could not provide data about themselves or contacts of their loved ones. This can happen to anyone - just slip and hit your head, lose consciousness or get hit by a car. Not everyone carries documents with them, and a person can recover after a few hours.
Information is entered into the portal database directly in the emergency room. Doctors record data about a person’s appearance (height, weight, approximate age), personality (if they had any documents with them), clothes, things, places where they were found and where they are now. Searching the database is possible both by name and by details - gender, eye color, special signs, etc.
Photos of patients are also available, but you can see them only after confirming your identity. This can be done through authorization on the Moscow portal of public services or by contacting the nearest My Documents center or a single window of the N.V. Sklifosovsky. For two years, information about 3,000 patients has been added to the portal database.
The myth of three days
But what if the Internet did not help in finding a person? There are a few more simple steps to be taken. On a daily basis, information about unidentified bodies and people brought to the hospital who cannot identify themselves is collected at the accident registry office. Up to 200 telephone and 100 written requests are processed there per day and help to find about 20 missing people. The office has a 24-hour multi-line telephone. The data is promptly sent there by the police on duty, morgues and hospitals.
Information about the hospitalization of patients can also be obtained by phone " hotline"Ambulance". In addition, it is worth contacting the one-stop service of the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine. Information about all hospitalizations in the capital's hospitals flows there.
Finally, if through all these channels it is not possible to find out about the missing person and his whereabouts, you should contact the police. An application can be written at any department, but it is better to do it at the place of residence of the missing person or where he could disappear. Finding the nearest branch is easy on the website of the head office of the Moscow police 77.mvd.rf. The application will also be accepted by calling 102.
The police need to provide all the known information about the missing person, the circumstances of his disappearance, special signs, what he could be wearing, photographs and documents will come in handy. It is a myth that it is only possible to file a missing persons report three days after the disappearance. The message must be accepted at any time and from any person, and not just from relatives.
You can also ask for help from volunteers involved in the search for missing people. The most famous such organization is Liza Alert, which has thousands of found people on its account. You can contact there both by phone around the clock, and by leaving an application online on the website.
Infographics "RG": Leonid Kuleshov / Alexander Meleshenko
Helpful Hints
- In order not to be in the role of a wanted man or someone who himself lost a loved one, it is enough to adhere to several simple rules. The first thing the police recommend is to carry documents with you. This is not necessarily a passport - a driver's license, work, pension or other certificate, etc. is enough.
- If you are leaving somewhere, tell your loved ones where you went and when you will return approximately, and ask them to do the same. Explain that this is not a desire to control or follow, but a concern for their safety. Be interested in the circle of familiar relatives and friends, their place of residence, telephones.
- Teach children how to behave in non-standard situations: refuse any offers of strangers, break out and loudly call for help if a stranger tries to take the hand, take them away, is imposed. A child may be told that his mother is in the hospital and she needs help, and even then he must remember that strangers cannot be trusted and refuse.
- If you are going to the forest, then take with you a small supply of water and food, charged mobile phone, as well as medicines if you take them constantly or you may need them suddenly. Wear bright clothes with reflective stripes, pay attention to unusual trees and other signs that can help you navigate along the way.
