So far this year there have been 905 missing persons cases reported to the Police. According to El Caribe, the Police receive between eight and ten complaints about missing adolescents each day, some of whom are found in motels, or farms or at friend’s homes. Of the 905 cases so far this year, the Police say that they have solved 666 of them, leaving over 200 cases still unsolved. Teenagers and people with mental illnesses compose the majority of the cases reported to the Missing Persons Units at Dominican police stations. According to details given to El Caribe by Police Major Juan Roque Jimenez, the head of the MPU, many of the cases have tragic endings, and he pointed out that there are only nine police officers assigned to the missing person detail in Santo Domingo.