Cleveland Police is seeking the services of the UK Missing Person’s Bureau in identifying two outstanding missing people on their records – the oldest dating back to 1970.
Now police also want any information from anyone local on Teesside who can help.
The UK Missing Person’s Bureau was created in April 2008 and forms part of the national operational support to police forces.
Part of their work includes a police service-wide review of the number of bodies and body parts that remain unidentified and enables police forces to call a central team to match details of current or historic missing people with information held on their database.
The bureau helps determine where additional forensic techniques could be used to try to bring resolution to a family about the identity of a person, and is now utilising its website to specifically publicise unidentified bodies in the form of a searchable list of cases.
The two outstanding cases which Cleveland Police hold relate to a body (age and sex unconfirmed) washed up on the beach at Redcar in 1970 and a man found in woods near to the A178 Graythorpe to Seal Sands Road in Hartlepool in 1981.
The body at Redcar was wearing black boots, multi coloured red and fawn socks and a leather belt.
The man in Hartlepool was approximately 20-30 years, 170cm tall, with mousey collar length hair and blue eyes.
He was wearing a blue and navy blue striped jumper, checked shirt and grey corduroy trousers.
The white Adidas training shoes he was wearing at the time had the name ‘SAYER’ written in pen on the inside.
The database can be accessed by anyone via the link www.misingpersonspolice.uk and any suggestions as to the possible identity of individuals can be relayed back to the bureau.
Thursday 23 May 2013
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/cleveland-police-use-missing-persons-4003005
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