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Pแ na tini siwma pidei tuha tini, a15a huurlain rai, tuha tini kai rai rai, niraioniai mi maitha tini naraotima aqafia, missinpersons weak. Missinpersons is a serious and complex issue and there are three groups at highest risk of going missing. Those people living with mental illness, older people with dementia or memory loss, and lastly, and perhaps most poignantly, young people. Any one of us can be affected by having someone we love become a missing person. And it has happened for somebody new every 15 minutes. For each person recorded missing in Australia, at least a dozen more are affected. Emotionally, physically, financially or psychologically. For families, friends, colleagues and teammates, the uncertainty over the wear of ours and the safety of a loved one becomes a traumatic daily challenge. Family members are at the heart of campaigns such as the National Missing Persons Week. And this year's campaign reflects the broader effect on family, friends and the community. Without families such as the Devots publicly sharing their story and experiences, we cannot amplify this very important public service message. Their strength is remarkable and allows us to raise awareness across the broader Australian community. It is through this communication that there is better community understanding of the risks associated with becoming a missing person. Greater understanding and empathy with families and sensitivity towards their experience. And a commitment across government and non-government agencies to work together to address this important social issue. While the emotional cost of families cannot be estimated, the financial cost to society associated with surging with medical costs and loss of income has been calculated to be around $100 million per year. But obviously on the personal level, it is much more. This Australian government is committed to helping find missing persons by providing funding for the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre within the AFP. This funding has enabled a more comprehensive response to missing persons and their families. The need for a strong national coordination function and leadership role to complement the operational role of the State and Territory Police Missing Persons Units was a catalyst for the establishment of the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre back in 2006. And I particularly commend the honourable John Howard and his government for this initiative. I spoke earlier about those most at risk of going missing, including those living with a mental illness. The Australian government is committed to ensuring that Australia has a sustainable and effective mental health system. To demonstrate this commitment, the Gillard Government has made mental health reform a priority and obviously much more work needs to be done in this area as a good start. And I give a special message as a former teacher to those young people who are considering going missing. And that is simply just to hang in there, to hang in there, to hold on and things will improve, things can improve. But today is obviously specifically about National Missing Persons Week and to raise awareness of the significant issues associated with missing persons across Australia. In addition to the Debit family here today, there are other families who have come forward nationally to highlight the profiles of their missing loved ones. This work has been coordinated by the National Missing Persons Centre but in conjunction with some of the Australian State and Territory Missing Persons Units. And I would like to thank all in these units, including our interstate colleagues, for their continuing work. To those distant families, again, I thank you for your courage in bringing forward your story in the hope that others will not have to live the same experience. And while it is bittersweet, I humbly officially launched National Missing Persons Week 2011. Thank you. As Graham said, previous missing person campaigns have focused on young people, people living with mental illness as well as older people suffering from dementia or memory loss and only last year the campaign focused on the need to dispel the myth that you have to wait 24 hours before reporting a loved one missing. This year's tagline, When Someone Goes Missing, More Than One Person is Lost, reflects the focus as decided by the Police Consultative Group on missing people for 2011 campaigns, the impact of missing persons on families, friends and the community. To talk more about the collaborative work of the Police Consultative Group on missing persons, the work of the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre and to launch the 2011 television campaign, please welcome Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Thielen. Ladies and gentlemen, before I proceed, I would also like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet today and acknowledge their connection with the land both past and present. People member from Orden, Mr Graham Parrott, is Betty Keenan, Parliamentary Secretary through the Ministry of Emergency Services, Acting Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart, 1800 Reverse Managing Director, Mr Paul Jovens and General Manager Operation Charles Slaughter, other representatives from law enforcement agencies, community groups, government and non-government partners, ladies and gentlemen. It's a pleasure to be here with you today to launch the Launch of National Missing Persons Week. I would especially like to acknowledge the families and friends of missing persons who are here with us today, especially the Debit family who were with us here today and who will be here soon later on. Thank you and welcome. As has been stated, missing persons is a serious and complex issue. Each year in Australia, 35,000 people are reported missing. That equates to one person every 15 minutes. I'd like to take a moment and just put that a little bit and illustrate what I'm talking about in a tangible way and put that into perspective. This stadium, in which we're here today, obviously has a very proud history for Queenslanders. But what you may not know is that the Lane Park Police Citizens Youth Club was the first branch of the Queensland Police Citizens Youth Welfare Association when it opened its doors in 1949. This stadium has changed a lot since the Lane Park days and now has a capacity of 52,000, 52,500 people. Some of you have proudly watched Australia and Queensland complete this stadium as part of a capacity crowd. If you can imagine two-thirds of that crowd, 35,000 people being absent, it puts it into perspective. Ladies and gentlemen, that's the number of people that are reported missing every year in Australia. While the resolution rate is very encouraging, with approximately 95% of missing persons located within a short period of time, usually within a week, the sad news is that hundreds of long-term missing persons cases are still to be resolved. The focus of this year's campaign is the impact that this has on the families and friends of missing people and the missing people themselves. Unless you've experienced a loved one gone missing, it's hard to understand the impact on those who have left behind. The impact on the families, friends and colleagues and on the missing persons themselves can be both profound and multifaceted. For families, not knowing what has happened to someone they love is devastating. For the missing persons themselves, it's often difficult to find support that requires to address their situation. I mentioned earlier that in Australia, 35,000 people are reported missing every year. Research also goes on to show that for every person that goes missing, there are 12 people directly affected. This applies to approximately 420,000 people that are affected every year. It's an enormous impact across our society. You can imagine that would fill some corpus data at eight times. Raising awareness about missing persons through campaigns is part of the core work of the National Missing Person Coordination Sound, which is a function of the Australian Federal Voice. The mission is to reduce the incidence and impact of missing persons and to educate the Australian community about the significant issue. One way the centre does this is via the missing persons website, which is about to be remorged, bringing a greater focus on the profiles of those that are reported missing. The National Missing Persons Coordination Centre works closely with missing persons units in each of the state and territory police forces. As this relationship that took us to Melbourne last year, and has brought us here to Queensland to launch National Missing Persons Week for 2011. In conclusion, I would like to thank our government and non-government partners, specifically the Queensland Voice, who have worked with us to help raise awareness of the issues associated with missing persons. I would like to acknowledge and thank the radio and television networks for their support in delivering team messaging of the campaign across their networks. I would like to extend my personal thanks to our state and territory police forces who deal with missing persons cases every day. And thank you again to the Deleg family for your courage in sharing your story with us here today. And thank you Hailey Rose for supporting the cause of missing persons through your involvement today. We all have a role to play in preventing and responding when people go missing. And I would like you now to continue your attention to the screens, to view this year's campaign television, community services and elsewhere. Thank you. My brother's been missing from most of the year. My family just want to know if it's all right. But being this way, this is high school. It doesn't make sense. He was a great worker. It's not the same without him. He's our only grandson. We'd like to know if it's safe. I miss my husband so much. I can't believe he's gone. When someone goes missing, more than one person is lost. Authorised by the swimming government camera. And once again, a very, very special thank you to those families who are with us today. Now to talk about Queensland's missing persons issues and a new initiative for Queensland families. Please welcome Acting Commissioner Ben Stewart. Good afternoon everyone. And again, I know that there's a few acknowledgements but I'd like you just to bear with me because there's very, very important people here today. Obviously, I'd also like to acknowledge the traditional owners and the land in which we meet today. I'd also like to acknowledge the Federal Member for Moreham, Graeme Perram, and Graeme, it's always great to see your support for law enforcement generally, but for this particular initiative as well. The Parliamentary Secretary for Emergency Services, Betty Kim, Betty, thank you so much for being with us today and representing our missing persons. Please, if you'd like to see us. Obviously, the previous speaker, Deputy Commissioner Mike Goodman, Mike Thanks, for coming up out at Col Campbell to be up here today for this launch. But it is important, ladies and gentlemen, and in fact it's so important that last year we asked the AFP whether they would consider launching missing persons week this year in Queensland so that we could highlight the actual, the pain and hurt that occurs in this community when someone goes missing. I'd like to also acknowledge Acting Deputy Commissioner Peter Martin who is here with us today from our organisation, Assistant Commissioner Mike Goodman who led me in and Mike's sitting somewhere in the audience, hiding. But also where there is a range of other very, very important members of the AFP at the QPS who are here and from other agencies from emergency services. Paul, thanks for being here today. Could I also acknowledge Kenny Martin, crime stoppers chair, the whole of presenters in the audience tonight. As you look around this audience today you really do see the importance of the partnerships that occur and the agencies that are involved and I think it underpins the theme of this year's missing persons week that about the number of people who are affected, the number of agencies who are affected and are expected last Friday and my heart was in my mouth as we had another report of another young child, a young acre old who went missing on Friday afternoon who thankfully was recovered safe and well on Saturday morning out in rural Queensland. But the number of agencies that got involved in that even in that short period of time was just amazing but it really does bring home to you the power of the partnerships that occur to make those locations possible. Can I acknowledge all the people who are in this room today who have been personally affected by loved ones going missing and in particular their family but again they are very very good friends. Denise and Bruce Walker, thank you for being here. As I said, we are really really pleased to be able to host this year's and as we are missing persons who have been launched here in Queensland it is truly an important occasion not just for Queensland but for the whole of Australia and this year's theme is quite apt when you consider how many people are affected when that person goes missing. There are many people in the room today who have been affected as I've said by someone closest to them going missing and not knowing what has happened to their brother, their sister, their mother, their father, their relative, their friend or even a work group in the sense of emptiness, grief and frustration. Here in Queensland approximately 6,000 persons were reported missing to Police last financial year but thankfully with the assistance of the community and many members of the organisation sitting in this room today we have located that 99.7% of those people reported missing. While we wish and our furtherment which is that we could locate absolutely every one of those persons and bring them home to their families and friends unfortunately as Michael quite rightly pointed out there are a large number of people who remain missing and those questions remain unanswered. Our missing persons unit is an integral part of the Homicide Investigation Group and has relied upon to that quickly in helping to locate missing persons. To this end we have created a multi skilled investigative team of experienced detectives, intelligence officers, media and general duty staff to support the functions of the unit. The dedication of missing persons staff is paramount and a recent missing persons case here in Queensland highlights the attention to detail that is required. Recently the life of a prominent Australian scientist was saved. A gentleman in question suffered from a medical condition and had collapsed in a Brisbane office building that was entered during regains. His whereabouts was unknown to his family and friends and was therefore reported missing when it was out of character for him not to make contact. The officer investigated a missing persons report organised the search of the building and on the third search the semi conscious man has located in a locker room several floors from where he was expected to be. Medical advice was that he would not have survived another 12 hours such as the value of having a dedicated missing persons unit with experienced and knowledgeable staff. A high number of people reported missing in Queensland and IU. To combat this phenomenon this State Crime Operations Command's missing persons unit has commenced a partnership with reverse road provider reverse to target this runaways in an effort to have them stay safe and stay in touch with family and friends when they have no other means of communication. 1800 reverse provides a wide safety tool allowing people in particular teenagers to safely and easily stay connected with family and friends when they have no cash, no credit or they haven't eaten properly mobile phone. The partnership is owned by young school aged children and their parents to stay connected by letting family and friends know that they are safe and well or simply run late. Research conducted by 1800 reverse shows that reverse charge calling is mostly used by 13 to 17 year olds to stay connected to home when they are out of credit. The service allows users to make a phone call from fixed phones, pay phones and some mobiles 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at a cost only to the receiver. This proactive initiative is a fantastic way to spread the message to kids to keep in touch and call home. By equipping children with the 1800 reverse number it gives them an important backup option to help look after themselves and it also gives peace of mind to parents that they are safe. As a parent of myself I like to know my children are safe and it's friendly with them. The kids can call home and we all know it doesn't matter what age those kids are. It's nice to have that safety net. 1800 reverse CEO Paul Johns and general manager Charles Slaugher are here today to acknowledge them for their partnering with our missing persons unit to help young people stay connected by expanding awareness of the service. I have been advised that missing persons are interested in this initiative in targeting out of use to stay connected. I commend this initiative as yet another example of the commitment of our service to reducing the incidents of missing persons wherever possible. Thank you very much for this and we'll start tonight. Thank you very much. I thank Commissioner Stewart. I now like you to all turn your attention to our second editon. For the caring James Joseph John Hicks who has been missing since Easter Sunday, 2008 he had pretty left the retirement village about 10 o'clock that morning telling the staff that he was coming to my house which was a 10 minute walk from him. He never arrived and was still waiting. My debts disappeared from my family. They kept looking and chasing people because they looked the same and looked the same. Definitely, I'm not mean but that doesn't mean the retirement village actually didn't get in touch with the place until about midday of that day which meant he had been missing for about 17 hours before there was any contact in the place. When the police rescue got in touch with me that day they were rather upset because they said it was 17 hours before they contacted it could be a timing. Anyone who has any worries or concerns that one of their family members not returned or late after me, don't wait contact the police and the person in it do everything sooner rather than later to bring it in council. You shouldn't be embarrassed that you're concerned for your family member but even if they turn up it's okay to start a search that you didn't need to but it does play safe. I just hope it never happens to anyone else. But no one should have to go into this. Close to days have been and we're about to hear the story of Michael Devin. Michael's last contact with his family was in February 2010. Michael has not been seen or heard from since. Extensive enquiries since the time of his disappearance and subsequent investigations have failed to locate Michael. Michael is one of five siblings. He has two daughters, one beautiful little grandson and numerous nieces and nephews. As you can see the impact on his family alone well exceeds the estimated average of 12 people being directly affected when one person goes missing. To tell Michael's story in more detail please welcome his brother acting superintendent of the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Mr Kevin Devin. Ladies and gentlemen, my guest thank you all for being part of this launch today and for everyone present as a member of their family in missing. I cannot thank you enough on that behalf. Not only this year I listened to the acting Police Commissioner Ian Stewart for two hours as I suppose him in twin waters. He was very articulate so this is a hard people for me to follow him slight follow of Richard Grayson. The Mission Cursing Wing is an annual van which takes hire through the first week of all which presents a theme this year. When someone goes missing more than one person is lost. When someone goes missing it affects everyone in the family. It is a ripple effect with acting on friends, family members and colleagues while they breathe. Since starting in the emergency services in 1975 I have learnt that people of grief have no pretense. There is no calm and flash. There is no energy to worry about what people are thinking about then or their family. There are many reasons why people breathe and why they don't believe in themselves and then maybe even in God. They keep it for the illnesses, tragedy, heartbreak, suffering and justice. It is our post modern culture which runs down into solution very deep. There is no question in my mind that the world is filled with an appalling amount of suffering we are impacted by this reality day on by the TV and by the media. As such it is not surprising that people have difficult time reconciling this harsh reality and Norway's incident was a good example. When Michael went missing it touched each of my siblings Gary, Frank and his sister Trace and their families as well as myself and my family. Our last has been very personal and each person has come in different ways to come to terms with this disappearance. But I believe that in a year and a half unquestively the hardest time is for Jay and James Lonnie. Both these girls are Michael's daughters of whom he was very proud of. With Michael missing his daughters are without a father to believe in to praise them love them and to provide their shoulder to cry and they were missing. They might never know what was happening to him and sadly Jay's daughter Taylor born in April last year she had to meet her grandfather for the first time and this is a tragedy. I am without my youngest brother with whom myself and my siblings had many times my wife and six daughters share memories also of Michael and they had me times when he came together to celebrate family occasions. On Christmas Day 2009 was the last time we all saw Michael together. We all celebrated a very memorable day sharing tales of the past and hopes of the future it was the last time we saw him. We went home from Russell Island and I drove him to Marsden and he talked about a road truck that he was going to drive and his future was the trucking company that he was working for. I did not know what your challenges are but for me, Christmas Day and the vacancy in the non-appearance that is left without Michael is something that I and my family and the siblings were at to live with. He was always happy to go happy to go lucky person and at the present time Michael has not renewed his truck licence and we use his bank accounts in 18 months but we live and hope that he is still alive. The Queensland Police Service and in particular the Missing Person Unit under the leadership of Detective Seating and Sergeant Damien Powell has been very professional and compassionate and I am no doubt that it is his energy and persistence that has me speaking today of the National Missing Persons I would also like to thank the media and especially the TV channels around the campaign right here around the Crossfire and Makayla area of the share and the distribution of posters for our Queensland has been very extensive for this we are truly grateful to the two we back us to Rebecca Glad and to Rebecca Cokes so I say thank you and for the family who say thank you for today's event and special thank you to Hailey for MC Thank you Kevin and I think I speak of behalf of everyone here to you and your family and also to the Walkins we wish you our present at this wishes and no doubt it has been hard for you to get up here today and speak but definitely with that question your words have added a lot of weight to today's campaign Well that formally concludes today's event or today marks the official launch of National Missing Persons Week Throughout this week in every capital city there will be a number of events to raise awareness of missing persons across the community This campaign relies heavily on our television, radio and print networks in promoting the key messages associated with missing persons and I'd like to thank those members of the media who are here with us today A big thank you and congratulations to the staff who work tirelessly in the background to pull this campaign and event together issue Your dedication to the cause is continually making a difference in raising awareness of this very important issue Again, thank you all for being here today to launch the National Missing Persons Week for 2011 Refreshments were outside and can I please ask the official party to move to the background before interviews and everyone else can enjoy the afternoon and our beautiful Brisbane weather Thank you I'm going to Sheffield to find out the house was in darkness the dog was still in the kennel there was no car to be seen so I find a new man in there and something wasn't right Always would be home he wouldn't be out and it was getting rather late so we automatically knew that something was up and my brother contacted the place straight away we just dropped a ring and we started searching for a scene where just no sign of him and it was very much out of character When something like this happens whatever you think you go with it, you don't feel it because at the end of the day when you're keeping yourself if you wait for them to do something and then find out you bring them down earlier but I waited those two hours for them to get home but then once I went he's not home, he's shooting home and the only reason we're confident that we've done everything we can we haven't got the result of one but we're very confident that what we've done is everything that could possibly be done At the end of the day you have to be able to sit on the couch when you're at home by yourself and say I did everything I possibly could have done to find the person waiting 24 hours and feeling guilty about it down the track or in your mind because at the end of the day the current situation that we are we haven't got any closure we haven't had any information on what else do you have Thank you very much for joining the afternoon