Canadian data - Submission to the Independent Civilian Review into Missing Persons Investigations conducted by the Toronto Police Service

[Senior Sleuth]

Submitted by: Ms. Heidi Illingworth, Ombudsperson
Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime
November 2019

The RCMP statistics reveal that:

• More children go missing than adults.
• More female children go missing than male children.
• Approximately 75 percent of missing children are labelled as runaways.
• More male adults go missing than female adults.

According to the RCMP’s National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains (NCMPUR), although the majority of the cases are resolved within a week (85 to 90 percent), there are still approximately 500 cases left unresolved each year. We do not know how many of these people have been victims of crime.

Submission to the Independent Civilian Review into Missing Persons Investigations conducted by the Toronto Police Service

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