Missing person investigation lacks safe and well check
Metropolitan Police received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 15 Jan 2019 and 25 Oct 2024.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
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Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“There were multiple failures in the days leading up to Ms [name redacted] death. During the evidence it was made clear that a mistake was made in relation to closing a missing person investigation”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Metropolitan Police responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The MPS has invested significantly in safeguarding focused police officer posts as part of the new BCU model, which has resulted in an increase of dedicated MPU officers.”
- 5 years 9 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner
“if Mr [name redacted] had been reported missing at the time he was in Charing Cross police station then there would have been more that officers could have done to keep him safe;”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Metropolitan Police responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2019 → 2024Michael Crane5 years 9 months after Catherine Horton · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight shortcomings in how the Metropolitan Police handles missing or vulnerable persons, pointing to gaps in procedure and resourcing.
Catherine Horton · 15 Jan 2019
“There were multiple failures in the days leading up to Ms [name redacted] death. During the evidence it was made clear that a mistake was made in relation to closing a missing person investigation”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Michael Crane · 25 Oct 2024
“if Mr [name redacted] had been reported missing at the time he was in Charing Cross police station then there would have been more that officers could have done to keep him safe;”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“The MPS has invested significantly in safeguarding focused police officer posts as part of the new BCU model, which has resulted in an increase of dedicated MPU officers.”
Stated action
“The MPS has invested significantly in safeguarding focused police officer posts as part of the new BCU model, which has resulted in an increase of dedicated MPU officers.”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Metropolitan Police at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 → 2024 | 0.59 | 0.15 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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