Dave Grimstead

Dave Grimstead is the head of Locate International, a not-for-profit comprised of an eclectic group of volunteers that helps families of unsolved missing person cases find their loved ones. The organisation’s work is the subject of Channel ’s The Body Detectives and featured in The Missing Podcast hosted by Pandora Sykes. Dave and Locate have featured in various media outlets, including BBC News, Guardian, Daily Express, Metro and more.

Before founding Locate in 2019, Dave enjoyed a distinguished 40-year policing career as a Detective Inspector, leading complex investigations from kidnap and extortion to homicide and missing person cases. He has also worked extensively in the field of international and serious organised crime with the NCA where he managed successful investigations in drug and people trafficking. He retired from the police in 2012.