Recommendation - Essex Police, May 2020

On 8 March 2019 a man called 999 to report to Essex Police a concern that his mother had not returned home. The acting inspector stated he would assign it as a missing person incident within an hour and half, as he wanted to confirm she had not returned home. After this time, it was then assigned as a missing person investigation and two officers attended the house, met with the son, and undertook a brief search (but did not look in all the rooms or garage). Ms A was found two days later in the garage, where she was unconscious with hypthothermia. She was in hospital for a number of weeks but has since recovered.