Beacon Alerts
An immediate and wide-reaching alert response when veterans or service personnel go missing and are believed to be at risk of self-harm or suicide.
Requesting a Beacon Alert
If you’re concerned for a missing veteran or service person and you’d like us to launch a Beacon Alert, please give us a call as soon as possible on 023 9438 7914, ensuring you have:
- A close personal connection to the missing person.
- A police reference or incident number
When service personnel and veterans go missing and are believed to be at risk of self harm or suicide, Beacon Alerts get the word our fast, enabling the military community to assist in locating individuals and getting them to safety.
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Who can request a Beacon Alert?
A Beacon Alert can be requested by close family, the police or another trusted service (community mental health team, armed forces charity, support organisation, search and rescue etc). In all cases we will require the individual is reported missing with the police and a police incident number or log reference to be provided.
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Who are Beacon Alerts for?
Beacon Alerts are exclusively for veterans and service personnel of the UK Armed Forces. We will need confirmation, or at the very least, strong reason to believe the missing person is a veteran or service person to launch an alert. We are often asked if we can launch Beacon Alerts for cadets, family members or civilians working on military bases. These are more suitable for other missing persons organisations: Missing People & Missing Persons Unit.
What we need to launch a Beacon Alert
We need as much information as possible on the circumstances surrounding the person going missing. This should include wherever possible:
- Name, age, height, build and hair colour, distinguishing features.
- Last known physical / mental state.
- If they’ve gone missing or anything similar before.
- Military status (serving, veteran, regiment etc).
- Referrers relationship to missing person (required).
- Police reference / log number (required).
- Police risk category if known.
- Where and when they were last seen.
- What steps have been taken to locate them.
- What were they last seen wearing.
- If they have other clothes with them.
- If they are with anyone else.
- If they have access to a vehicle/s.
- If there is a known or suspected location they are going to.
- If there is a search ongoing.
- If a point of contact for physical search (POC) has been appointed.
- If there is any danger to others.
- If there is a specific action required from our users.
- If launching a Beacon Alert is likely to increase their chances of harm.
Unsure if a Beacon Alert is the right call?
Get in touch with our team and tell them what is going on. They’ll be able to guide you on what action might be appropriate, even if it is not a Beacon.
