35,000 people are reported missing each year in Australia - one person every 15 minutes (Missing Persons in Australia 2008). 95 percent of missing persons are found within a short period of time (usually within a week) however the are currently 1,600 long-term missing persons (people who have been missing for more than six months).

 

Upcoming campaigns lead by the NMPCC are International Missing Children's Day (25 May) and National Missing Persons Week which in 2009 focused on older people with dementia as a group at risk of going missing. You can find out more by reading our latest issue of Missing.

 

The NMPCC is funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Federal Police and aims to reduce the incidence and impact of missing persons in Australia.

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