OPP Missing Persons Annual Report Data

Under Section 8 of the Missing Persons Act, 2018, police services are required to report annually on their use of urgent demands for records under the Act and the Ministry of the Solicitor General is required to make the OPP’s annual report data publicly available.

The data includes:

  • year in which the urgent demands were reported
  • category of records
  • description of records accessed under each category
  • total number of times each category of records was demanded
  • total number of missing persons investigations which had urgent demands for records
  • total number of urgent demands for records made by OPP in a year.
Ministry contact: Analytics Unit/Modernization Division/SOLGEN

Additional information

Tags
Geographic coverage
Ontario
Source URL/Address
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/18m03
Maintainer
Analytics Unit/Modernization Division/SOLGEN
Author
Strategic Policy, Research and Innovation
Author Email
Strategic Policy, Research and Innovation
Maintainer branch
Analytics Branch
Last Validated Date
July 17, 2025
Update frequency
Yearly

OPP Missing Persons Annual Report Data

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Date range: July 1, 2019 - December 31, 2024

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    OPP Missing Persons Act Annual Report Data Records English [7.6 KiB] Valid data

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