He Ministry of Interior offers incredible data on the number of missing people in Spain. At present there are 918 open cases of missing persons and the police indicate that the most disturbing are those of minors, since they can be kidnappings or worse still murders and quantify this type of cases in about twenty. Police sources also point out that these numbers have grown due to the arrival of irregular immigrant minors who are admitted to protection centers and voluntarily leave them, emphasizing that in these cases, the police file a complaint for disappearance although, it is not treated in the same case as the children of Córdoba or Yeremi who appear frequently in the media.
It is pointed out that the first 24 hours, after the disappearance of a person, are essential to obtain information about their reliable whereabouts and that citizen collaboration is essential for research.
To help in all these cases, the Ministry of Interior has announced the signing of an agreement with the Federation of Journalist Associations of Spain (FAPE) to boost the national alert system For missing children. A number of phone what citizens can call, the 116000, when they have information that helps research. This number works 24 hours a day and is managed by the Anar Foundation, which is a non-profit organization and is dedicated, within the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to the promotion and defense of the rights of children and adolescents at risk and homelessness, through the project development in both Spain and Latin America.
With this, the Ministry of Interior wants to ensure that after the complaint about the disappearance of a child and when the researchers deem it necessary, they immediately begin a series of calls for citizen collaboration, with announcements in the media, social networks, screens of information on roads, airports, ports and railway, bus or subway stations.
Your base will be a Web page managed by the Secretary of State for Security and if the system works and a high volume of calls is received that it may be impossible to manage by the small teams that currently handle the missing in the police and the Civil Guard, the Interior Minister, Jorge Fernandez, is committed to putting all the necessary means for the system to move forward.
In parallel, Interior will put into operation a website that will collect the different alerts of missing children that are being made. The 116000 telephone is common to 13 countries of the European Union. For its part, Nemesio Rodríguez, vice president of the FapHe stressed the "special concern" of his organization for minors and wanted to make it clear that they will mobilize to disseminate the data of missing children.
We hope that all of this helps the State security forces to find the missing persons more quickly and with the collaboration of all of us.
