Miami-Dade Medical Examiner Department, Miami-Dade Police Department, and FIU Police Department will be hosting Miami-Dade Missing and Unidentified Persons Day.
The event will be held on Saturday, May 4th, 2019 at FIU’s Student Academic Success Center (11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33199) (see the attached picture).
This will be the first event of its kind in Miami-Dade County and we are looking to host it annually. The purpose of this community event is to bring awareness to missing persons and unidentified remains cases in an effort to locate the missing person (alive or deceased) and to positively identify the unidentified remains within our county’s jurisdiction.
Why is this important? There are over 3000 people reported missing to law enforcement in the state of Florida (Imagine how many people have not been reported missing). Additionally, Miami-Dade County accounts for 25% of the unidentified remains cases in the state of Florida.