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For every missing person, there is a family and community left behind.
Sunday, July 30 marks the start of National Missing Persons Week. It is an annual campaign to raise awareness of the issues and impacts surrounding missing persons.
This year’s campaign, which runs until Saturday August 5, aims to raise awareness around the high number of ‘youth’ who are reported missing to police each year.
The theme of ‘youth’ was selected after Australian Federal Police research found three out of five missing persons reports related to a young person under the age of 18. Those in the age bracket of 13 to 17 years accounted for 19,000 of the 38,000 or 50 per cent of all missing persons reports recorded by police each year.
Meet the people missing in the photo gallery above. you have any information about a missing person contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
You can view profiles of missing persons on the national register at missingpersons.gov.au.
Did you know?
It is common for people think they need to wait 24 hours, 48 hours, or longer before they can make a missing persons report to police, but this is not true.
In Australia, a missing person is defined as anyone whose whereabouts are unknown and there are immediate concerns for their safety and welfare.
