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When people | When people are reported missing to the Metropolitan Police, and specialist search advice is required to try and find them and return them to safety, Police Search Advisors are assigned to the case. One of the search tools used to assist locating the missing is documented statistics from previous cases. However, the current data used is 8 years old and none of the data studied was from London. Police Search advisors cannot be familiar with all the thousands of cases in their database and London's individual demographics are likely to display behaviours and patterns unique to London. Your task is to use (an anonymised version of) their database to help visualise and guide search efforts, based on the characteristics of similar cases in the past. Note that this team will need to interact with data that is sensitive and may be distressing. | ||
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Client: Adam Basill, Metropolitan Police Adam.G.Basill@met.police.uk
When people are reported missing to the Metropolitan Police, and specialist search advice is required to try and find them and return them to safety, Police Search Advisors are assigned to the case. One of the search tools used to assist locating the missing is documented statistics from previous cases. However, the current data used is 8 years old and none of the data studied was from London. Police Search advisors cannot be familiar with all the thousands of cases in their database and London's individual demographics are likely to display behaviours and patterns unique to London. Your task is to use (an anonymised version of) their database to help visualise and guide search efforts, based on the characteristics of similar cases in the past. Note that this team will need to interact with data that is sensitive and may be distressing.
