| There are innumerable reasons for people to turn up | | | | about the missing people. For instance, their names, |
| as "missing." It is observed that the number of missing | | | | addresses, residence and cell phone numbers, date of |
| persons in the U.S. is approximately 210,000 every | | | | birth, the number of years they have stayed at their |
| year. There are various organizations and helplines that | | | | residence, physical description and health condition. |
| provide advice and support to missing people as well | | | | They also contain information of the people appointed |
| as their families. These organizations and helplines | | | | to find the missing people. Missing persons databases |
| have detailed databases of both vulnerable and | | | | help the most when the people found are unidentifiable. |
| non-vulnerable missing people of all ages. | | | | The accurate information the databases contain |
| Most of the helplines and organizations that help to find | | | | provides important hints or clues to identify a particular |
| missing people are charities that depend totally on | | | | person whether alive or dead. |
| voluntary donations as they do not charge a single | | | | A missing persons database plays an important role in |
| rupee to the families of the missing persons. In order to | | | | finding a particular person. Some of the organizations |
| find people, the most essential thing is to have | | | | also support the police in finding certain missing |
| complete information of those people. Hence, most of | | | | criminals and hence these organizations provide |
| these helplines arrange this information in a proper way | | | | automated databases of missing persons to |
| so that the search becomes faster and easier. This | | | | authorized law enforcement and criminal justice |
| collection of the arranged data of a missing person | | | | agencies that can be used only by them through |
| forms the missing persons database. These | | | | private telecommunication systems. |
| databases consist of all the necessary information | | | | |