Volunteer for missing people sitting in a car and monitoring the searching team through a iPad.

Search missions streamlined with GroupTalk

Missing People is a Swedish non-profit organization that has been active since 2012 when they were founded in Gothenburg. Today, Missing People is a nationwide organization with around twenty regional branches around the country. The core of the organization is all the volunteers who give their time to help in the search for missing people.

Each year, nearly 27,000 people are reported missing to the police in Sweden. Missing People’s work to find missing persons focuses on supporting the police and relatives by publishing missing person alerts and organizing search operations for those who have disappeared.

During an active search operation, the Local Response Team (LI) is responsible for planning the search effort and maintaining contact with relatives. Missing People conducts search operations in all environments (except at sea), which requires a communication system that is reliable, efficient, and tailored to their mission — and in that regard, GroupTalk is perfectly suited to the task.

Volunteers searching for missing people are performing a chain search.

Team communication for volunteers

"In our search operations, professional and secure communication is a prerequisite for effective and safe efforts where we support families and the Police in finding missing persons. GroupTalk provides us with the best possible conditions through its scalability, flexibility, and security at both local and national levels. The system’s ease of use is also essential for all our volunteers. We are extremely grateful for the long-term partnership and support we receive from GroupTalk. It strongly contributes to our vision – No one should go missing without being found." — Mats Karlsson, Operations Manager

We at GroupTalk value Missing People's work and think that they fulfill an important function in society with their work and with their commitment to humanity. That is why we at GroupTalk have since 2015 sponsored the organization both financially and with the GroupTalk service in connection with their search efforts to find missing persons.

With the help of the GroupTalk app, the people who are part of the search effort can talk to each other in groups, Push to Talk (PTT) groups from their Android and iOS Smartphones. The GroupTalk service makes it possible to click on a single button, speak to an unlimited number of PTT users in secure and private PTT groups and manage the search effort efficiently with crystal clear voice. A big advantage of GroupTalk is that the users at Missing People can use their own Smartphones as walkie talkies and with basically unlimited range over the existing 4G / 5G mobile networks during their missions.