Missing Person/Counter Exploitation Unit Overview September 2017
Winnipeg Police Service – MPU/CEU n n 1 Sergeant – oversees Missing Persons and Counter Exploitation Unit 3 Detective Sergeants 12 Detectives 4 Full-time Missing Persons Coordinators
Shifts n 6 Detectives – A-side n 6 Detectives – B-side n Rotation – Each side – works a rotation of one week Days/ one Evenings n 7 days/week
What do we investigate? n n n Parental / Familial Abductions Stranger Abductions High Risk Runaways Vulnerable Missing Disappearances n What we may end up involved in…………. n Drug Invests n Child abuse n Sexual Assaults n Warrants/ Breaches n Thefts, Domestics n Weapons n Stolen Vehicles n Human Trafficking
WPS Missing Person Statistics 2017
Primary Mandate n The Missing Persons Unit works to provide a timely and coordinated response to persons reported missing, understanding that emergent circumstances, depending on the vulnerability of the missing person require a more concentrated use of police and community resources, simultaneously providing compassionate and accountable support to reporting persons
Prioritizing Missing persons is a case by case procedure Priority is given to the following: n Children n Elderly n Vulnerable n High Risk Youth- as identified by CFS n Anyone who has gone missing under circumstances outside their normal pattern of behavior
PARTNERS n n Winnipeg Outreach Network: WON is a network of outreach workers, functioning together, reaching out to anyone street involved. Including youth, exploited youth and adult women, transgender and males, homeless, transient, gang involved, children in care and not in care The purpose of WON is to provide information and resources
Won Members n n n n Winnipeg Police Service ANCR Bear Clan Child Find Manitoba Daniel Mac. Intyre Association Laurel Centre Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre n n n Ndinawe RAY Spence Neighborhood Association Street Connections VOICES Mount Carmel Clinic. Sage House
PARTNERS n Missing. Kids - Canadian Centre for Child Protection n Child Protection Branch n n National and International cases, Interpol requests Customs Intelligence / Border Services n n Street Reach Initiative, Accountability RCMP – National Centre for Missing Children n n Critical Reach, Amber Alert Support for Families during and after Passport Control / Info Entering only, not exiting BOLO’s Missing Murdered Women's Task Force/ Child Abuse Unit/ Sex Crimes/ Counter Exploitation Unit/ n Sharing information
PARTNERS Salvation Army- Ancourage Program for addictions, Counseling n Main Street Project n Addictions Foundation of Manitoba n Manitoba Housing n
Street Reach Initiative – started in 2009 Goal: Target High Risk Victims, Locate them and provide them with resources. Child under the age of 18 n Involved in prostitution/being sexually exploited n Harmful drug/alcohol use n Involved with criminal networks n Extreme prior victimization Street reach works daily with WPS to locate missing youth and provide them with various resources such as the Crisis Stabilization Unit n
Limitations We are extremely limited in facilities for youth suffering from addictions n We lack out of town placements for children who need to be away from the dangers of the city n We lack secure facilities for our most vulnerable, at risk youth n
Resources before, during, after The WPS often deals with families, and care givers lending advise in the hopes of preventing a child from going missing. n Some of the resources offered are: School Resource Officers, Mobile Crisis, Missing. Kids. ca n These resources as well as the previously mentioned partners are always provided to families, and caregivers n
Speaking from Experience n n Our Counter Exploitation team recently arrested a 15 year old female who is actively exploited Our team asked her what she truly wanted and needed. Her response: A Family, Stability This female has been in the CFS system for many years and wants to be placed with a family outside of Winnipeg Our team is committed to working with CFS to make this happen and give this young girl a chance at a better life.
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