The Core-group contains the following countries: Czech Republic, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden.
Damjan Miklič, MSc, Senior Criminal Investigator, Head of Homicide and Sexual Offences Section of the Criminal Police Directorate, Slovenia
I have been working for the Police since 1989. I have had thirty years of experience in investigating blood and sexual tortures, first as a criminal investigator, then as a group leader, and currently as a senior criminal inspector and head of section. By education, I have a master in security studies, I have gained my Master of Science degree in the area of criminalistics. I am a lecturer of criminalistics, an author of professional articles, a mentor of final works and a criminal instructor.
Magali Eyraud, French National Police, Commandant de Police, Head of the analysis and operational support section in the Central office for repression of violences against the persons
I’m Police officer within the French National Police since 2002 in investigations teams on serious and violent crimes in the National directorate of judicial police.
Since 2012, I’m assigned to the Central office for repression of violence against the persons. This department makes investigation and coordination on major crimes and missing persons’ cases, especially on cold cases.
I’m the head of a section of 4 units that assist in the investigations by carrying out analysis/synthesis, by making links between cases, by researching into new technologies and by psycho-criminologic approach. In particular, we manage a national database containing unsolved missing persons and unidentified human remains cases.
Elke Eisenlohr, Leader of the Missing Persons Unit, Federal Criminal Police Office, BKA, Interpol Wiesbaden, Germany
I started my career as a police officer at the BKA, Interpol Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1987. I lead the Missing Persons Unit since 2020 at which I’ve been working since 2003. Among others, I teach and coach police officers of the 16 German federal states in handling the German database for missing persons, unidentified bodies and unidentified helpless persons.
Since 2022, I’m a member of the PEN-MP core group to represent the German authorities.
Wendy van Hilst, Police Inspector, Forensic Specialist and manager of the Dutch DNA database for MP & UHR
More than 30 years ago I started my career within the Dutch police force in Amsterdam. Since 2003 I have been working as a forensic crime scene investigator. After several years I became a coordinating forensic leader.
In 2020 I started as a Forensic Specialist and manager of the Dutch DNA-database for MP & UHR. Furthermore I am the co-founder of the National Expertise Center for Missing Persons (LOEP). In 2022 I started as a core group member of the PEN-MP.
Małgorzata Puzio-Broda, Lt. Col. police officer at the Department of Fugitive and Missing Persons at the Criminal Bureau of the National Police Headquarters, Poland, with 32 years of experience with the Police, graduated from the Warsaw University’s Faculty of Journalism and Political Science.
For 12 years, she has been actively involved in tasks related to searching for missing persons. She participated in the preparation and implementation of the Child Alert system in Poland – a special tool for searching for missing children – and in the establishment of the Missing Persons Search Centre of the National Police Headquarters. Author and co-author of many articles and publications on the search for missing persons, actively working to prevent disappearances in Poland. Initiator and co-organiser of social campaigns dedicated to reducing the phenomenon of missing persons.
Susanne Welander, Inspector/National coordinator Sweden
I work with a colleague, and our main function is to register and coordinate cases regarding missing persons and unidentified bodies, when those cases cannot be solved by the case handler. We answer incoming questions from the media, concerning statistics and specifics regarding operational or investigative methods in these kind of cases. Finally, we handle international cases concerning Swedish citizens gone missing, or found dead but not formally identified. We use the Interpol DVI-forms and standards in all identification cases and are part of DVI Sweden. If there would be any kind of major disaster including multiple deceased and missing persons, we can offer assistance – primarily concerning identification an reconciliation.