Between 2022 and November 13, 2024, the number of missing and unlocated people in Hidalgo has increased by 55 percent, according to statistics from the National Search Commission (CNB) of the federal Ministry of the Interior.
During 2022, 469 records of missing persons were recorded in the state, of which 287 subsequently obtained data on their whereabouts or they returned home, but 38.8 percent have no data at all. In the year reported, 26 people were found dead.
For 2023, a record of 607 people reported missing or missing was detected, that is, there was an increase of 18.7 percent compared to the reports of 2022. Of the total, 74 percent were located, that is, 451 people, of which in 32 cases they were found dead.
The report that is issued and that is national, highlights that so far this year, in Hidalgo there is a report of 731 Hidalgo residents who did not return to their homes, reported José Francisco García Reyes, head of the Commission for the Search for Missing Persons of the State of Hidalgo (CBPEH), but after investigations, 542 have already been located; while at least 192 are in the process of searching.
In an interview with El Universal Hidalgo, Francisco García indicated that 20 percent of the reported cases are related to a criminal act, while 80 percent are due to voluntary absences caused by problems and domestic violence.
The official emphasized that there is no time limit to start a report for a missing person and stated that it is false that 72 hours have to pass, since this is attended to immediately according to the protocol.
“When we have knowledge of a missing person, the report is started. We prefer to start the file and be informed (later) that they are arriving home, rather than not arriving and it being more difficult to locate them later. The more time we have, the easier it is that with the cameras, in collaboration with the C5 and with the purple police we can locate them,” explained García Reyes.
He pointed out that after the missing person file is started, the remote search is activated, which consists of calling hospitals, prisons, public prosecutors, the Hidalgo Public Security Secretariat (SSPH) and also consulting the National Registry of Detentions to cross-check the information and determine the whereabouts.
Source: eluniversalhidalgo
