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Missing Persons Bureaus

The person who makes a planned, deliberate disappearance has little to fear in the way of apprehension by the local police department's Missing Persons Bureau (MPB). For starters, the MPB in most police departments is sort of an afterthought, mostly designed to keep anxious relatives out of the desk sergeant's hair and to track down runaway juveniles. The cops aren't likely to put their crack detectives on this beat, to say the least. And because disappearing in and of itself is not a crime, the local police are unlikely to mount an expensive and usually fruitless search.

The MPB will do the routine paperwork, however, and it's surprising just how many people are uncovered through the simplest of investigations. Most of the people the MPB find did not change their names, much less their identities, and did not leave the local vicinity. Many more are picked up through their automobiles, either from being pulled over for a traffic violation and run through the computer or by having their license and registration traced. Still others are apprehended in flop houses and shelters, the first place the MPB looks--if it looks at all--or are caught for minor crimes like shoplifting or breaking and entering.

The MPB's will almost never find a serious disappearee or identity changer, unless by accident. The U.S. does not have a national police department per se, although it does have the FBI, which will be discussed below. The MPB's will not pursue a disappearee across state lines even if they do share information with other MPB's. You have a good chance of staying undetected as long as you follow the simplest of identity-changing procedures, or unless there is money or crime involved in your disappearance, in which case it won't be the MPB's you have to worry about.


Date: 2015-01-11; view: 1055


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