Missing or Wanted, It All Starts Here

Is there anyone in the world who hasn't read about the abduction of Madeline McCann, a British toddler who disappeared in a Portuguese resort in May 2007? Everyone seems to love a mystery, but behind each high-profile case of a missing person is a real story of human tragedy and thousands of other disappearances that are never reported in the media.

Did you know one person is reported missing every minute in the U.S. on average? In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds, that's almost 350,000 reports every year.

MissingWanted.com aims to 'search the missing and track the wanted' by providing a set of accessible global resources in one user-friendly location. Proudly independent, MissingWanted.com is about responsible search without manipulation or commercial exploitation and discovery without judgement.

We don't find people but aim to become the 'go-to' tool for missing persons and wanted people, providing trusted global missing persons resources for private individuals, professional searchers, and public law enforcement agencies. We empower investigations for missing people worldwide.

Who Is Behind MissingWanted.com?

MissingWanted.com is an initiative created by a private investigation agency, AGOP, based in Switzerland and offers field and online investigations as part of an integrated service. AGOP saw a critical need and developed MissingWanted.com as an independent project driven by experience and personal vision.

MissingWanted.com bears the same hallmark as AGOP and is founded on the twin principles of professionalism and a strong sense of responsibility.

Its foundation stone is the requirement to centralise disparate information in a structured and ordered way, making searching for missing people and tracking the wanted easier and more successful.

Why MissingWanted.com Exists?

Necessity is the mother of invention, and this is the sentiment behind the founding of MissingWanted.com.

We live in a global village, but trying to find someone who's disappeared flags up the piecemeal approach to missing and wanted persons on the international stage.

Searching for someone who is lost or doesn't want to be found is challenging enough, but finding the right resources in a coherent structure in one location is the bit that's missing. MissingWanted.com fills this gap.

But the issue isn’t limited to missing persons. When it comes to wanted individuals, the challenge appears in a different but equally fragmented form.

Law enforcement agencies worldwide all have their own search models for wanted people. This non-standardised approach makes coordinated actions between crime bureaus difficult. Some nations don’t have a protocol for highlighting wanted people or accessing information about them, a serious flaw when it comes to following individuals in one location or tracking them through different countries via joined-up international investigations.

Another challenge for a private or professional searcher is the reliability of information and the avoidance of unscrupulous organisations and even scammers who seek to profit from others' misfortune.

Centralising trusted resources in a global information pool is vital, saving time and avoiding all those frustrating dead ends and blind alleys so many searchers encounter. With the intent of becoming a multifactor resource, MissingWanted.com will also tackle issues, including how to harness public awareness, the pitfalls of this, and when and how to deploy media involvement.

Bringing together global resources is critical, but site users' involvement will also become the fuel that drives MissingWanted.com forward. Sharing experiences and resources will help grow this initiative into a world-class tool that will always be the first place to start when someone goes missing.

What MissingWanted.com Offers Today

MissingWanted.com offers an expanding international directory of verified databases and a growing catalogue of other resources to help track missing and wanted people. The site is free for individual and professional searchers alike.

The intention is to expand and develop to create one holistic global resource that joins the dots for searchers and investigators with a live missing persons database.

MissingWanted.com will offer the chance for collaborations as it grows and develops. Our news feed will deliver exciting initiatives, and a wealth of experience and advice will be available on the latest blog and featured case studies.

Aside from its international status and free access, MissingWanted.com's hallmark is that all the information on the site is verified and trustworthy. Constantly reviewed and updated, you won't need to look anywhere else.

We'll also link to relevant support organizations and charities that can help support individuals and families with some other aspects involved in searching for a relative or loved one.

Our Future Goals

The ambition is to slowly and methodically build the world's best resource to find missing and wanted people. Like a missing person search, pace and method are both key, and the MissingWanted.com resource will gradually build into a valuable tool in every country.

As data grows, we'll add features like enhanced listings, missing person alerts, advanced search tools, and filters.

Growth and expansion will never diminish our commitment to ethics, security, privacy, and the constant verification of factual information.

How Readers and Site Users Can Help

MissingWanted.com welcomes reader input, whether that's feedback on aspects of the site, new initiatives, or sharing your missing person search journey with others via a featured case study.

If you're looking for a missing person, you'll encounter a world where the information sources and tools are fragmented and complex to navigate. You can help us change this.

Subscribing to the newsletter and sharing the platform with family, friends, and colleagues will help the MissingWanted.com community grow into a truly global resource.

Conclusion

Whatever type of missing person search you're involved in, MissingWanted.com is there to help. Bidding to become the world's largest missing persons database and global resource for searchers and agencies, work with us to shape this vital new platform and help us to help you.

We can't do it without you. Together, we can make a difference.