The offices ante mortem enabled by the National Police and the Civil Guard In collaboration with forensic doctors, they have counted until 8 p.m. this Tuesday 89 cases of active missing persons due to the DANA and subsequent floods that affected the province of Valencia on October 29, according to figures from the Data Integration Center (CID).
These active cases correspond exclusively to the complaints where relatives have provided different information and provided biological samples that allow the subsequent identification of their relatives, the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV).
The CID indicates that it is important to note that reports of missing persons with active files in the offices ante mortem They do not correspond to the total number of missing people that the tragedy could have generated, since there may be cases of disappearance that have not yet been reported.
Furthermore, these 89 active cases of reported disappearances must be put in relation to the number of deceased people on whom autopsies have already been performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) but are pending to be identified, which amount to 62.
According to the CID’s latest assessment, the forensics have carried out throughout this episode 195 autopsies to deceased in the DANAthe same ones who have entered the morgue of the City of Justice in Valencia. Of that total, 133 are fully identified. Of these identifications, 119 have been achieved by fingerprint analysis and the remaining 14 by matching DNA samples.
Identification data
The data that relatives of missing persons can provide in the offices ante mortem to facilitate identification range from photographs, personal and anthropometric reviews, medical histories, x-rays or clothingfor personal effects, tattoos, dental records, surgical operations performed, use of internal prostheses or pacemakers, among others.
For identification through genetic profiling, the greatest reliability lies in the biological samples from relatives direct ancestors and descendants, as well as the delivery of personal effects belonging to the missing person such as a toothbrush or a razor blade.
The offices ante mortem They are located, in the case of the Civil Guard, in the Patraix Command, at 4 Calamocha Street; and in the case of the National Police it is located at the Higher Police Headquarters, at Gran Vía Ramón y Cajal, 42. Both in the city of València.
Furthermore, they have been mobile offices installed to collect data and complaints of relatives of missing persons, and prevent them from having to travel to Valencia. They are located in the towns of Albal (Civil Guard Post, Tabacalera street), Alfafar (Municipal Social Welfare Building, La Taleta street, 38) and Algemesí (Local Police checkpoint, Sant Nicolau de Bari Street, 56 ). Its uninterrupted hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
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