1. Missing Person/Counter Exploitation Unit Overview
September 2017

2. Winnipeg Police Service – MPU/CEU
1 Sergeant – oversees Missing Persons and Counter Exploitation Unit
3 Detective Sergeants
12 Detectives
4 Full-time Missing Persons Coordinators

3. Shifts 6 Detectives – A-side 6 Detectives – B-side
Rotation – Each side – works a rotation of one week Days/ one Evenings
7 days/week

4. What do we investigate? Parental / Familial Abductions
Stranger Abductions
High Risk Runaways
Vulnerable Missing
Disappearances
What we may end up involved in………….
Drug Invests
Child abuse
Sexual Assaults
Warrants/ Breaches
Thefts, Domestics
Weapons
Stolen Vehicles
Human Trafficking 4

5. WPS Missing Person Statistics 2017
    

7. 7

9. Primary Mandate
The Missing Persons Unit works to provide a timely and coordinated response to persons reported missing, understanding that emergent circumstances, depending on the vulnerability of the missing person require a more concentrated use of police and community resources, simultaneously providing compassionate and accountable support to reporting persons

10. Prioritizing Missing persons
Missing persons is a case by case procedure
Priority is given to the following:
Children
Elderly
Vulnerable
High Risk Youth- as identified by CFS
Anyone who has gone missing under circumstances outside their normal pattern of behavior

12. PARTNERS
Winnipeg Outreach Network: WON is a network of outreach workers, functioning together, reaching out to anyone street involved. Including youth, exploited youth and adult women, transgender and males, homeless, transient, gang involved, children in care and not in care
The purpose of WON is to provide information and resources

13. Won Members Winnipeg Police Service ANCR Bear Clan Child Find Manitoba
Daniel MacIntyre Association
Laurel Centre
Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre
Ndinawe
RAY
Spence Neighborhood Association
Street Connections
VOICES
Mount Carmel Clinic-Sage House

14. PARTNERS MissingKids - Canadian Centre for Child Protection
Critical Reach, Amber Alert
Support for Families during and after
Child Protection Branch
Street Reach Initiative, Accountability
RCMP – National Centre for Missing Children
National and International cases, Interpol requests
Customs Intelligence / Border Services
Passport Control / Info
Entering only, not exiting
BOLO’s
Missing Murdered Women's Task Force/ Child Abuse Unit/ Sex Crimes/ Counter Exploitation Unit/
Sharing information

15. PARTNERS Salvation Army- Ancourage Program for addictions, Counseling
Main Street Project
Addictions Foundation of Manitoba
Manitoba Housing

16. Street Reach Initiative – started in Goal: Target High Risk Victims, Locate them and provide them with resources.
Child under the age of 18
Involved in prostitution/being sexually exploited
Harmful drug/alcohol use
Involved with criminal networks
Extreme prior victimization
Street reach works daily with WPS to locate missing youth and provide them with various resources such as the Crisis Stabilization Unit
The Crisis Stabilization Unit is a secure facility for youth to feel safe from the street.

17. Limitations
We are extremely limited in facilities for youth suffering from addictions
We lack out of town placements for children who need to be away from the dangers of the city
We lack secure facilities for our most vulnerable, at risk youth

18. Resources before,during,after
The WPS often deals with families, and care givers lending advise in the hopes of preventing a child from going missing.
Some of the resources offered are: School Resource Officers, Mobile Crisis, MissingKids.ca
These resources as well as the previously mentioned partners are always provided to families, and caregivers

19. Speaking from Experience
Our Counter Exploitation team recently arrested a 15 year old female who is actively exploited
Our team asked her what she truly wanted and needed. Her response: A Family, Stability
This female has been in the CFS system for many years and wants to be placed with a family outside of Winnipeg
Our team is committed to working with CFS to make this happen and give this young girl a chance at a better life.

20. Questions or Comments ?