A CHARITY are asking the Government to give families of missing people the same basic rights as victims of crime.
Families whose loved ones disappear have no automatic access to emotional or practical support. They also face a legal and financial minefield without access to bank accounts or, in some cases, life insurance.
They don't know whether the vanished are dead or alive, if they disappeared voluntarily or have been taken.
Missing People want every region to have a missing persons co-ordinator, counsellors to be made available by local authorities, every family to have a single point of contact in the police force, all unidentified bodies to be cross-matched with missing persons reports and every family of a missing person to be signposted by the police to Missing People's free emotional, practical and legal support services.
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This is a good idea, and in some ways a good off shoot life insurance companies could get into. Not to sound opportunist, ok it does and I’m sorry about that, but it’s gap in the market, people need help in this area. Not everyone are the McCanns who can raise millions looking for a missing person. It’s sector that needs help and insurance companies I believe have the expertise to deal with this sensitive subject and emotional state of those involved.
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