Missing persons are dealt with at district level. The information requested could not be provided without conducting a full examination of the records of each district, which could be carried out only at disproportionate cost.
However, an exercise conducted for the Northern Ireland Policing Board in November 2007 calculated the number of missing persons reported in each year since 2002 as follows:
Number 20071 581 2006 642 2005 689 2004 684 2003 668 2002 437 1 Up until November 2007.
There were 68 persons registered as missing in Northern Ireland as of early November 2007. Only a very small number of persons reported missing are not subsequently located.