Key links
Australian Agencies
Police
Australian Federal Police
State and territory police services
State and territory police services conduct searches for missing people and carry out associated investigations. Only one missing person’s report should be filed with police in your state or territory. Interstate enquiries will be conducted by the police jurisdictions as required.
- New South Wales Police
- Northern Territory Police, Fire & Emergency Services
- Queensland Police
- South Australia Police
- Tasmania Police
- Victoria Police
- Western Australia Police
Non-police
- Salvation Army Family Tracing Service - Operates a worldwide search network for missing family member’s 18 years and over. Also provides a service (NSW Only) for people separated by government intervention.
- Australian Red Cross - Conducts worldwide searches through the International Red Cross/Crescent Movement in approximately 177 countries.
- Link Up - Provides reunion services to adult aboriginals separated from their families and cultures by government intervention policies such as adoption, fostering or institutionalisation.
- International Social Services - Helps trace family members separated by adoption or other legal intervention, international child abduction and voluntary or forced migration.
Other agencies
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) - Provides advice and assistance where there are serious concerns for the safety and welfare of Australians overseas.
- Families & Friends of Missing Persons Unit (FFMPU) - The FFMPU’s primary aim is to co-ordinate the delivery of support services to families and friends of missing persons in NSW. This involves direct service provision through the delivery of counselling, information and referral services. It also includes law reform, facilitating and conducting relevant research, the production of publications, and facilitates the sharing of information across agencies in the missing persons sector.
- Someone is Missing website is specifically dedicated to the mental health needs of missing persons and their families and friends.
International Agencies
Police
- New Zealand Police
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- UK Police National Missing Persons Bureau - A centre for the exchange of information connected with the search for missing persons both nationally and internationally. The Bureau focuses on cross matching missing persons with unidentified persons.
Other agencies
- Missing and Unidentified Persons Unit in the California Department of Justice assists law enforcement and criminal justice agencies in locating missing persons.
- Missing People UK - Missing People (Formerly National Missing Persons Helpline) is the UK's only charity that works with young runaways, missing and unidentified people, their families and others who care for them.
- The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) founded in 1998 and launched by the U.S.-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, works to identify and coordinate a global network of organisations fighting child-sexual exploitation and abduction.
- National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the U.S. aims to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
