Demographics, Frequency, Training, Prioritising, Responsibility for PI

The objectives for this book are to (1) Explore the attitudes of police officers to Prevention Interviews (PI) of adults. (2) Explore the attitudes of police officers to PI of children. (3) Examine whether the PI should be the responsibility of third sector partners. This chapter reveals some results from 34 survey questions, answered by 1,936 police constables, responding on their views for managing the return of repeatedly missing people. The anonymous questionnaire was split into themes, designed to explore the Prevention Interview (PI) with both quantitative and qualitative questions. This chapter reports participant demographics, including mean length of service; frequency of conducting PI’s and officers’ experiences; officer training levels; the importance for prioritising certain groups of missing people for a PI (with statistical significance); responsibility for whom respondents thought currently conducted the PI and who should do so.