Australian Federal Police

The NMPCC develops a number of publications to educate, inform and support families and friends of missing persons, police, professionals and the general public.

General

• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Russian
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Singhalese
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Italian
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Hindi
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Greek
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: English
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Croatian
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Belarus
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Spanish
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Arabic
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Chinese
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Dinka
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Korean
• Missing Persons - Myths and Facts: Vietnamese
• The PLEASE Policy Principles (PDF, 460.5 kb)
• General information for families and friends of a missing person (PDF, 393.2 kb)

Older people and dementia

• Missing persons and dementia (PDF 1MB)
• Missing persons and dementia: wandering (PDF 1MB)
• Missing persons and dementia: safer walking (PDF 1.6MB)

Missing persons and homelessness

• Missing persons and homelessness (PDF 1.6MB) 

Missing persons and mental health

• Mental health and missing persons (PDF, 938.9 kb)  

Young people

• Are you a young person at-risk of going missing?

Using the media

• How can the media help you?: Arabic
• How can the media help you?: Chinese
• How can the media help you?: Italian
• How can the media help you?: English
• How can the media help you?: Somali
• How can the media help you?: Vietnamese

Search options 

• Search options and support (brochure) (PDF, 1.2 mb)
• Search options and support (guide) (PDF, 346.3 kb)

Support

• Relationships Australia - Counselling Support 
• What is a trigger? (PDF, 30.7 kb)
• Are you the parent of a sibling of a missing person? Fact sheet (PDF, 200.3 kb)
• Are you a sibling of a missing person? (PDF, 35.6 kb)
• Are you the extended family member of a sibling of a missing person? sheet (PDF, 369.1 kb)

Legal information

• Navigating the coronial process (PDF, 666.9 kb)  

Education and training

• Supporting those who are left behind - A counselling framework to support families of missing persons (PDF, 1.4 mb)
• Are you working with a young person at-risk of going missing?

Research

• Trends and Issues Paper: Missing Persons in Australia (AIC, 2008) (PDF, 145.9 kb)
• Living in Limbo - The experience of International Parental Child Abduction (ISS 2005) (PDF 228kb) 
• Missing persons in Australia (AIC, 2008) (PDF, 1014.2 kb)
• Missing Persons: Incidence, Issues and Impacts (AIC, 2000) (PDF, 62.4 kb)
• The Missing Person Dimension (AIC, 1999) (PDF, 41.1 kb)
• Missing People - Issues for the Australian Community (Australian Bureau of Criminology, 1999) (PDF, 332KB)
• Profiling Missing Persons within NSW (PDF, 93.8 kb)
• Churchill report: Leonie Jacques, BSW (Hons), DipHE (PDF, 141KB)
• Churchill report: Sarah Wayland (PDF, 113KB)
• Churchill report: Mark Samways (PDF, 124KB).
• Scoping a National Missing Persons Diversity Research Agenda