The Missing Persons Bureau, based at Bramshill Police College in Hampshire, is the national and international point of contact for all missing people and unidentified body cases.

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His family thought he had gone to Portugal to start a business, but reported him missing when they could not contact him.

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The court heard how the defendant, who has been diagnosed as bi-polar, had believed she was the missing girl and had made contact with the family.

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In addition to this direct contact, the FCO funds the charity organisations Victim Support and Missing Abroad who have provided additional support to the family.

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Sierra had arranged to meet her contact on a bridge she planned to photograph on the day she went missing, Turkish news reports said.

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Turkish news reports said Sierra had arranged to meet her contact on a bridge she planned to photograph on the day she went missing.

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"Clinics contact us because they have a sense of the number of patients they are missing out on if they don't offer financing, " he says.

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Television microphones detected a noise, but replays showed the ball missing the bat by several inches and the bat failing to make contact with the ground.

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They will then be given details of how they can contact the relevant officers if they suspect they know the whereabouts of any of the missing children.

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"She has been missing now for over two days and it's not like her to not come home or contact any of us for such a long time, " the 26-year-old quantity surveyor said.

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