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Key Factors for Locating Missing Persons Living with Dementia: A Delphi Study Among Swedish Police Experts

A three-round Delphi study involving 43 Swedish police experts reached consensus on 53 factors spanning information, search management, tactics, knowledge and collaboration. hb.diva-portal.org

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DOI: 10.18261/njsp.13.1.1 · Full paper

Operational significance and transferability: Useful for reviewing dementia-search information gathering and police–SAR coordination. Person-specific knowledge, terrain understanding and structured situational awareness receive particular emphasis.

Limitations: Expert consensus, not a validated prediction tool or comparative trial of search effectiveness. Swedish responsibilities and procedures require jurisdictional adaptation.

Training influence: Use a dementia scenario to assess whether teams obtain useful personal history, identify information gaps and translate those gaps into questions and search hypotheses.

Training sections: Initial Incident Picture; subject assessment; behavioural profiling; collaboration; search tactics; reassessment.

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