Missing person coordinator absent weekends and insufficient 24/7 PolSA coverage
College of Policing received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 31 Jan 2014 and 20 Jul 2026.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from College of Policing was found for the earlier reports.
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“The evidence revealed that a missing person coordinator was in post but not on duty at weekends.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from College of Policing was found for this report.
- 12 years 6 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderatea different coroner
“The inability of police forces to provide 24/7 365 day coverage of PolSA responsibilities is being impeded by: (1) insufficient provision of training places, and (2) the number of training places made available”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ College of Policing responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2014 → 2026Alan Hirst12 years 6 months after Shaun Elliott · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports highlight a lack of round‑the‑clock staffing for missing‑person investigation roles. The earlier report notes a missing‑person coordinator absent on weekends; the later report notes insufficient 24/7 coverage of PolSA duties due to training shortages.
Shaun Elliott · 31 Jan 2014
“The evidence revealed that a missing person coordinator was in post but not on duty at weekends.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Alan Hirst · 20 Jul 2026
“The inability of police forces to provide 24/7 365 day coverage of PolSA responsibilities is being impeded by: (1) insufficient provision of training places, and (2) the number of training places made available”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from College of Policing was found for this report.
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 College of Policing 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 → 2026 | 0.71 | 0.10 | Closely related · 0.80 | different |
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