# Commission Implementing Decision of 1 July 2011 amending the SIRENE Manual (notified under document C(2011) 4574) (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2011/406/EU), Division 5.2: Provision of descriptive detail on missing minors and other persons assessed as being at risk

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

SIRENE bureaux shall have ready access to all relevant supplementary information at national level regarding missing person alerts in order for the SIRENE bureaux to be able to play a full role in reaching a successful outcome to cases, facilitating identification of the person and providing supplementary information promptly on matters linked to the case. Relevant supplementary information may cover, in particular, national decisions on the custody of a child or vulnerable person or requests for the use of ‘Child Alert’ mechanisms.
In the case of a high-risk missing person, field 083 of the M form should begin with the word ‘urgent’. This urgency should be reinforced by a telephone call highlighting the importance of the M form and its urgent nature.
As field 083 of the M form has limited technical capacity for holding information, a common method for entering structured supplementary information and the order of that information shall be used.
As not all vulnerable missing persons will cross national borders, decisions on the provision of supplementary information (on descriptive detail) and its recipients shall be taken on a case-by-case basis, covering the entire range of circumstances. Following a decision at national level on the extent of forwarding required for such supplementary information, the SIRENE bureau shall, as far as is appropriate, take one of the following measures:
(a) retain the information in order to be able to forward supplementary information upon the request of another Member State;
(b) forward the M form to the competent SIRENE bureau if enquiries indicate a likely destination for the missing person;
(c) forward the M form to all the competent SIRENE bureaux, based on the disappearance circumstances for the purpose of supplying all data concerning the person in a short period of time.
Once information has been received by a SIRENE bureau, it shall, in order to maximise the opportunities for locating the person in a targeted and reasoned fashion, be communicated, as far as is appropriate, to:
(a) relevant border posts;
(b) the competent administrative and police authorities for the location and protection of persons;
(c) the relevant consular authorities of the Member State which has entered the alert, after a hit is found in the SIS.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/406/annex/division/5/division/5.2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-406/annex/division-5/division-5.2
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