Mexican authorities have now implemented a new method new method for finding missing persons from a new database, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) reported
The new formula will integrate the current record of 23 thousand 271 people and new complaints to the prosecutors and state prosecution.
Eliana Garcia, assistant attorney responsible for the Human Rights of the PGR, explained that the database is part of the efforts made since 2014 to establish criteria and methodology for debugging the National Registry of Missing Persons and Missing.
«What we do not know where they are. And as we know where we have to look,» he said.
The new database is software designed by the International Red Cross through the Missing program and which participated for making experts worldwide, forensic anthropologists, specialists in tracing and prosecutors.
«It is an instrument that has two modules. One antemortem and another postmortem. It consists of a questionnaire to collect data on missing persons as a complaint is and another to be used as the protocol for the treatment of forensic identification that prosecutors should be used when he found a clandestine grave «he said.
So far there are five entities in which and both procedures are performed: the Federal District, the states of Mexico, Puebla, Tlaxcala and Veracruz and in all instances of the Attorney General’s Office.
The data collected in both the questionnaire who makes reporting a disappearance as to fill forensic they find a grave was being emptied into the software and the information may intersect with existing records.
According to the plans of the PGR, this year must complete training and software installation in all prosecutors and state prosecution and in 2016 the database could be operating throughout the country.
