PF works on system to improve search for missing people

By the beginning of next year, the Federal Police (PF) intends to deliver an online database to unify information and facilitate the search for missing people inside or outside the country.

"We are working on a system that will be automatic. So, we will receive this information and the response will be much faster", said agent Luan Vitor Miranda da Costa, deputy head of the PF's Service for Combating Serious Violations of Human Rights.

In 2023, the Federal Police launched a project to combat the disappearance of people and human exploitation. Called Lumini, the project has already analyzed more than 10 thousand cases, achieving more than 72% of resolutions on disappearances and 89% of identification of corpses in the data until September this year. Now, the PF is working on improving the program.

In an interview with Agência Brasil, during the Rec'n'Play innovation and technology festival, which runs until this Saturday (14) in Recife, the Federal Police agent informed that this new database will greatly facilitate the work of searching for missing people, whether in Brazil or abroad.

“For example, when an email arrives from the Civil Police saying that someone is missing, we will put [this information] into the program and we will be able to search all systems at once, instead of having to access each one”, he explained.

Currently, Lumini works with data provided by civil police, state identification institutes, Legal Medical Institutes and technical-scientific police across the country on cases that have not yet been solved. Through its systems and its international partners, the Federal Police can help in the search for missing people.

"It is important to make it clear that we do not interfere in the investigation, we do not take responsibility for ourselves. We respect the constitutional responsibilities of the institutes and police, but knowing that we can help with our systems, we are available and they send us what they have", said Costa.

According to him, through the Lumini Project, it is possible to provide an answer to these people. “The Lumini project, even though it is carried out by the Federal Police, is a response from the public sector itself to society”.

Rec’n’Play

The Rec’n’Play festival is the largest technology, innovation and entrepreneurship event in the country, promoting a series of lectures, workshops, debates, conversation circles, interactive experiences, cultural activities, shows, innovation actions, themed arenas, children’s programming and even business opportunities.

Organized by Porto Digital and the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) in Pernambuco, the festival promotes more than 850 activities in various spaces in the historic center of Recife, with programming all free, subject to prior registration.