Missing Person -- Hampshire

[J.D.]

Received from Hampshire CountryWatch:

1720-07012010

Missing female, feared for welfare.

DESCRIPTION: White, aged 40, 5' 7" tall, shoulder length red hair, wearing blue jeans, purple/white knitted top and black leather jacket.

Last seen in Chilcomb area, if sighted please call 999 - Hampshire Incident Number 616.

[redhand]

I'll post this on LZ as well as there's a few from round that way.

[J.D.]

MISSING FEMALE FOUND SAFE AND WELL 2100 hours.

[Smego]

3hours I hardly call that a Missing Person!

Maybe she just, "went out"??

[Dave123]

3hours I hardly call that a Missing Person!

Maybe she just, "went out"??

Um, I think 'missing' people can only be declared missing after 24/48 hours?

[J.D.]

For those that seem to know the job better than the police do. The time that message was received was probably not the time she was reported missing. Off the top of my head I don't know when she was reported missing, I just put the time I got the message from Hampshire Countrywatch.

If you go fail to come back from an off road event, 3 hours after you should have been home, would you expect people to wait 48 hours before looking for you? Get real.

[ben-dent]

For those that seem to know the job better than the police do. The time that message was received was probably not the time she was reported missing. Off the top of my head I don't know when she was reported missing, I just put the time I got the message from Hampshire Countrywatch.

If you go fail to come back from an off road event, 3 hours after you should have been home, would you expect people to wait 48 hours before looking for you? Get real.

well said J.D i have known people to have got lost after a greenlaning day (headed the wrong way on a road and before you know it your lost and cant tell your location on the map usually cant read maps) not everyone can,

also our scouts did something similar took the wrong path while on DofE (practice) walk and didnt arrive at camp at the estimated time they said they were, we had to do some searching, lucky it was an area with byways so was able to take the landy down the tracks, luckily they were found shortly after the police were contated,

[Dave123]

For those that seem to know the job better than the police do. The time that message was received was probably not the time she was reported missing. Off the top of my head I don't know when she was reported missing, I just put the time I got the message from Hampshire Countrywatch.

If you go fail to come back from an off road event, 3 hours after you should have been home, would you expect people to wait 48 hours before looking for you? Get real.

No need to get upset, I don't think I know any better than the police do, But I was just saying to the previous poster that they have probably been gone for longer than 3 hours and that they weren't immediately declared missing as they walked out the door, I was also under the impression that to file a police report, the person has to be 'missing' for more than 24 hours or 48 hours (pretty sure it was 24 but unsure, because I am no policeman, far from it.)

I also wasn't talking about an organized event, In that situation I would have waited a couple of hours, delays can happen as we all know and often sometimes a pub comes a' calling! as we also all know :lol:

[redhand]

A person can be reported missing any time after they have failed to show up.

Usual safety tip for walkers/climbers etc in hill country is the always leave your intended route and ETA with a reliable contact. That way if anything goes wrong they can quickly alert the authorities. not much point waiting 24/48hrs after someone has failed to arrive at a Youth hostel or B&B in the middle of winter in Snowdonia. before alerting police.

Like wise if a child or vulnerable adult goes missing.  The police will assess the danger to the missing person and then decide if they need to be reported as missing. So if your 18year old son/daughter don't come home after a night out clubbing with mates they're unlikely to launch a fullscale search. But if you toddler disappears from the front garden then they'll pull out all the stops.

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

As the person who asked JD to post the initial report about this missing woman, I'd like to clear a coupleof things.

1) the 'not missing until 24hrs' point is a myth that has come about from our reliance on the Press and American based 'fact based crime' programmes.
2) All missing persons (mispers) in Plod parlance are graded exactly as Redhand points out; on the vulnerabilty of the subject.

from personal experience, which is slightly jaded, the vast majority of 'Mispers' I have dealt with are kids aged between 12 & 16, regular customers of the Police, who know 'The Score ' and play the system.
We then will chase round after them, knowing full well that when we eventually find them, we will receive a mouth full of abuse from the misper and sometimes indifferent parent/s.
Don't get me wrong, if a genuine misper occurs, all resources are thrown at it. As the poster says on that back door of the nick says 'todays missing person could be tomorrows murder investigation'.

A bit belated, but thanks to JD and Redhand for spreading the word.