24 August 2012 Last updated at 04:58 ET
By Louise Coletta BBC News
Vital clues may be found in the first few hours after someone disappears. But how do police decide which cases to prioritise?
When schoolgirls such as Tia Sharp, Milly Dowler and Shannon Matthews went missing, their faces were to be found in every national newspaper.
The police operations to find them were high-profile and extensive. And yet in 2011, 327,000 people went missing - 66% of them under 18.
The police spend 14% of their time looking for missing people so what makes a case rise immediately to the top of the
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