# Since 2020 the Police has reunited 17-thousand-968 missing persons with their loved ones. Police spokesperson, Athlenda Mathe says these were adults and children that were reported as missing at police stations across the country. She says the number of adults found through intelligence and meticulous detective work stands at 15-thousand-and-5 adults while two-thousand-963 are children under the age of 18. She adds that SAPS divers recovered an additional three-thousand-and-99 bodies from water sources such as rivers and dams.
SAPS reunited over 17 000 missing persons with their families in last five years