UPDATE: ACT Policing says the boy has been located safe and well (11.30am Friday 15 May).
ACT Policing is seeking the public’s assistance to locate a 12-year-old boy, missing since yesterday evening (Thursday, May 14).
The North-side boy did not return home from school yesterday and was last seen at 8.30pm yesterday in Belconnen, at the traffic lights on Belconnen Way and Lathlain Street.
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ACT Policing members have been canvassing areas known to the missing boy overnight.
Anyone who has any information about the whereabouts of the missing boy is urged to call ACT Policing on 131-444.
(ACT Policing media release)
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Boy, 12, missing from Belconnen area
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Another case of a boy deciding to go with a friend and get up to mischief perhaps? No explanation as to why they went AWOL? The skateboard is a dead give away, probably spent the afternoon down at the skate park with dubious characters. No helmet visible in the pic either so definitely not a safety conscious individual. No well behaved child goes missing for more than a few hours before seeking help from police or somebody to find their way home.
Still, I could be totally wrong, being from a different generation and all and having no idea what constitutes as normal behavior for teenagers nowadays.