Policy Text
University of California, San Francisco
Police Department General Orders
4.11 Missing Persons Investigations
4.11.2 Runaway Juveniles (Issued: 6/25/07)
A. The officer handling a runaway juvenile case will gather all information regarding the
runaway needed to file the appropriate reports, including subject description and
circumstances surrounding the disappearance, to complete an incident report, and all
information needed to complete a California Department of Justice Missing Persons
System (MUPS) entry. A recent picture of the juvenile should also be obtained if
available.
1. If the officer is given sufficient information on the juvenile’s whereabouts, he/she
will make a reasonable effort to locate the juvenile.
B. The officer will ensure the runaway juvenile information is entered into MUPS as s oon as
possible after taking the report but no later than the end of the investigator’s current shift
if the juvenile has not been located.
C. The Investigations Unit Sergeant will review all runaway juvenile reports and assign
follow -up investigations as appropriate on the basis of the circumstances in the report.
D. The runaway juvenile information will be cleared from MUPS when:
1. The juven ile has been located or
2. The juvenile is no longer considered to be a runaway.