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Date Time NSW Police Force launches Missing Persons familial DNA collection pilot program The NSW Police Force will launch a familial DNA collection pilot program on the state’s Mid North Coast next month, which aims to assist detectives with ongoing historic missing persons investigations. Following a comprehensive review of operations, the NSW Police Force announced the establishment of the Missing Persons Registry (MPR) and the implementation of new systems and procedures, which came into effect in July 2019. Since that time, the MPR has undertaken a review of all 769 long-term missing p...

More people go missing in Northern NSW than any other area in the state – and police can’t explain why.

News by Ava Benny-Morrison Premium Content   The families of missing people have been asked to volunteer their DNA at pop-up collection centres in a bid to solve hundreds of ­unidentified remains cases and suspected murders. The collection drive is believed to be a world first for law enforcement and aimed at finally identifying 330 "John and Jane Does" - the nameless bodies and bones found all over NSW that date back to 1964. The groundbreaking program is being rolled out in Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie in the northern region, which police lik...

News by Heath Parkes-Hupton 31st Jan 2021 7:53 AM Police are set to employ a bold new tactic as they continue the hunt for the long list of missing people in NSW - and work to identify the more than 330 mystery bodies on record. A new program aimed at collecting the DNA of biological relatives of missing persons on the state's mid-north coast has been launched, after a review of case files revealed a lack of direct or familial DNA. The pilot, set to begin in Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie, will feed information to the NSW Pol...