Recommendation - Staffordshire Police, December 2025
Recommendation date: 19 December 2025
Response due: 13 February 2026
Published: 5 January 2026
Welfare and vulnerable people
We identified organisational learning following an independent investigation in which a child was reported missing.
Recommendations (1)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that Staffordshire Police amend their Missing Persons Procedure to ensure that the Force Control Centre (FCC) pro-actively notifies the Local Operations Inspector (LOI) whenever a new missing person is recorded on the COMPACT system (a missing persons’ … Read more
Force Response
Accepted Staffordshire Police missing persons policy amendment has been completed to address this issue. Page 7 of the refreshed Missing Policy (Oct 2025) states: “On the creation of ALL missing persons on COMPACT, Force Incident Managers should pass this onto … Read more