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Analysing the Profile of Missing Persons in Greece

Analysis of 9,054 Hellenic Police records found both familiar and Greek-specific missing-person patterns, including differences in repeat episodes, hospital absconding and child abduction

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  • Author(s): Stavros Chatzisymeonidis; Susan Giles; Sara Waring; Louise Almond

  • Source: Springer Nature

  • Publisher(s): Springer Nature

  • Publication date: 13 May 2026

  • Country: Greece

Why it matters in operational practice: It is a useful corrective against importing behavioural assumptions, risk indicators or population patterns wholesale from another jurisdiction.

Operational transferability: Applicable across SAR as a planning principle: use local case data and test assumptions about vulnerability, repeat episodes and likely circumstances.

Important methodological limitations: Retrospective police data from one country; it does not establish causal pathways or provide an operational search-location model.

Training influence: Use comparative scenarios to distinguish evidence-led subject assessment from assumptions based on familiar but non-local missing-person profiles.

SAR training sections: Information gathering and subject assessment; behavioural and spatial profiling; scenario and hypothesis development; reassessment and replanning.

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