Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
Missing people: connecting communities and policing
Delivering projects to support missing persons investigations
2020
South West
I am one of the Founders of Locate International. I completed an MSc in International Criminal Justice at Portsmouth University Centre for Study of Missing Persons, where I was able to speak directly to families in unsolved missing persons investigations. Their pursuit of truth and feelings of injustice with regard to a lack of resources and the quality of investigations are powerful.
I am travelling to the USA and Canada to help develop our Locate Centre for Missing People Investigations, where we have a network of universities and community teams throughout the UK.
I was inspired by the approach and extent of community engagement with cold case investigations in both countries. I have found many examples in Canada and USA where collaborative work by teams of experts and volunteers, operating across different specialisms, was successful in cold case murder investigations. I will be looking to learn from those models and bring that back to help families in unsolved missing person investigations in the UK.
Co-founder and Chief Executive of Locate, Dave Grimstead (CF 2020) featured in The Guardian in an article about an unidentified woman who jumped from Wembly Point in 2004. Dave is a former police officer and uses his skills and experience with Locate to examine cold cases of missing people and unidentified bodies. Another Churchill Fellow, Emma Tilley (CF 2020) has volunteered with Locate and she is also mentioned in the article.
By Dave Grimstead, 2023
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Co-founder and Chief Executive of Locate, Dave Grimstead (CF 2020) featured in The Guardian in an article about an unidentified woman who jumped from Wembly Point in 2004. Dave is a former police officer and uses his skills and experience with Locate to examine cold cases of missing people and unidentified bodies. Another Churchill Fellow, Emma Tilley (CF 2020) has volunteered with Locate and she is also mentioned in the article.
By Dave Grimstead, 2023
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
