(a) Not later than January 1, 2012, the Police Officer Standards and Training Council shall develop and implement a policy concerning the acceptance of missing person reports, including, but not limited to, missing adult person reports, by law enforcement agencies in this state and such agencies' response thereto. Such policy shall include, but not be limited to, (1) guidelines for the acceptance of a missing person report, (2) the types of information that a law enforcement agency should seek to ascertain and record concerning the missing person or missing adult person that would aid in locating the missing person or missing adult person, (3) the circumstances that indicate that a missing person or missing adult person is a high risk missing person, (4) the types of information that a law enforcement agency should provide to the person making the missing person report, to a family member or to any other person in a position to assist the law enforcement agency in its efforts to locate the missing person or missing adult person, and (5) the responsibilities of a law enforcement agency in responding to a missing person report and the manner of such response, including preferred methods of response that are sensitive to the emotions of the person making such report.
(b) Each police basic or review training program conducted or administered by the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the Police Officer Standards and Training Council or a municipal police department shall include training in the policy developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and training in the use of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by the Office of Justice Program's National Institute of Justice.
(P.A. 07-151, S. 1; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; 11-102, S. 3; P.A. 12-204, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 07-151 effective July 1, 2007; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Division of State Police within the Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-102 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same by inserting references to “missing adult person”, adding provision re methods of response that are sensitive to emotions of reporting person and making technical changes, and added Subsec. (b) to require police basic or review training programs to include training in the policy developed re missing person reports and in the use of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System; P.A. 12-204 amended Subsec. (a) to make a technical change, effective July 1, 2012.
See Sec. 29-1i re definitions.