Recurring hazard (see the quoted concerns)
Metropolitan Police Service received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 28 Aug 2014 and 20 Nov 2019.
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 4 specific actions.
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“There was a failure by the MPS Missing Person's Unit (Greenwich) to carry out an effective search for [the deceased] as a consequence of the lack of information not shared with the Unit”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Metropolitan Police Service responded, stating 4 specific actions.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
“A full and regularly updated list of persons by both the London Borough of Bexley Social Services and Ethelberi's Children's Services with whom a”
“A tisk assessment report is required in preparation for any strategy meetings for missing looked after children”
2 more stated actions in the Promises tab.
- 5 years 3 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner
“C&l ward staff did not have a proper understanding of what key information they needed to provide the MPS in order to trigger a police missing person enquiry, or to escalate an existing enquiry.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:informationmissing
The most recent report. A response may not be due or published yet.
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2014 → 2019Nimo Younis5 years 3 months after Lauren Barfoot · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight a breakdown in the flow of necessary information to the police that hinders an effective missing‑person response.
Lauren Barfoot · 28 Aug 2014
“There was a failure by the MPS Missing Person's Unit (Greenwich) to carry out an effective search for [the deceased] as a consequence of the lack of information not shared with the Unit”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Nimo Younis · 20 Nov 2019
“C&l ward staff did not have a proper understanding of what key information they needed to provide the MPS in order to trigger a police missing person enquiry, or to escalate an existing enquiry.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“The means by which the Missing Persons Unit (Greenwich) is able to access essential information in respect of a missing person, in order to carry out an effective prioritisation of resources required for any search”
Stated action
“A full and regularly updated list of persons by both the London Borough of Bexley Social Services and Ethelberi's Children's Services with whom a”
Stated action
“A tisk assessment report is required in preparation for any strategy meetings for missing looked after children”
Stated action
“Strategy meetings for missing looked after children are held within the timescales set out in the”
Stated action
“The means by which the Missing Persons Unit (Greenwich) is able to access essential information in respect of a missing person, in order to carry out an effective prioritisation of resources required for any search”
No published response from Metropolitan Police Service was found for this report. It is the most recent report, so a response may not be due or published yet.
- 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 Service 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 → 2019 | 0.72 | 0.10 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
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