Too Many Missing Persons Runaways And Human Trafficking ..

If your a trying to locate a missing person, family member, friend or even maybe a business
partner who got cold feet, and you've left this daunting task up to the police or other civil
authorities ... then good luck!

Unless the person your looking for is under age, has been abducted, kidnapped or has committed a fairly serious crime, chances are that no one will put in the resources and effort for any length of time to try and locate them. This all means that if you don't take the initiative to go out and search, the missing person will stay missing unless they return of their own free will, are released by who ever is holding them or if they get arrested for something
else.

Then there is the case of Human Trafficking where people just seem to disappear. Some of these victims go missing on their way to work, others are targeted by responding to phony newspaper ads for one thing or another that really gets them abducted by smugglers who's business is selling people to other people ... kind of a twenty first century slavery thing.

Looking at the missing persons statistics from the F.B.I, Interpol and others, the numbers per year are staggering ... Millions!

Here are a few tips to help you get started in searching for the missing person your trying to locate, with more tips at; http://www.missing-persons-search.com

1) .. First try to determine where the person may have gone, for starters take a wild guess ... and you just may be correct. Most runaways tend to migrate towards known destinations for many reasons some of which are; safety and familiarity, a destination that they may have talked about in the past, a favorite vacation spot or where you know they may have friends ... and the list goes on, but that's what you have to start thinking about, 'The
Destination'.

2) .. Once you have eliminated or focused upon the most probable destination, move on to getting hold of some good photos of the missing person and imprint your contact details on several dozens of these photos which you will hand out to certain people in the suspected area(s).

3) .. Now to the best of your ability, try to gather your search team of family members, friends and who ever else who would be sympathetic to your cause to help you search the suspected area. When you all arrive in the country, city, town or village ... start visiting the hotels, motels, low cost rooms, salvation army .. etc, and start showing and handing out the missing persons photo, Offer a monetary compensation for positive leeds to those who seem most likely to know what's going on in town.

4) .. Survey the lay of the land, meaning, bars, clubs, restaurants and of course those who see almost everything ... the street people, the con artists, the take down and shake down crowd, those who the police interview when they need information (So don't talk, look and dress like cops). These people, if you know how to talk to them can be a wealth of good leeds as to who else you should be talking to.

5) .. Forget Internet searches, go do your own public records search when on site.

6) .. Now you've set the ball rolling, your missing persons photos are out there, you have some contacts to talk to ... but don't stop there!

7) .. If you know the character profile of the missing person you'll be able to open up a whole new set of criteria for your search. Police use profiling to narrow down the search to specific areas, those being the most probable, logical search points to concentrate on. Unfortunately police don't as a standard procedure use profiling for all but the most serious crimes. See more about the 300 question missing persons profiling technique at;
http://www.missing-persons-search.com

In short, if you don't do it under your own steam, it won't get done by the civil servants!

We hope some or all of this information will help you locate the one you are looking for!

regards,
Thomas Akin
Search Co-ordinator