Police scramble helicopter to search for missing man, 84, with dementia in Nidderdale

North Yorkshire are urgently looking for Rodney, 84, who was last seen in Sawley, near Ripon, at 12noon today (8 November).

The force said that Rodney lives with dementia and may appear confused or disorientated.

Detectives explained that as time passes, concerns for his welfare are growing, NYP is urging “anyone who may have seen him or knows where he is to contact us immediately”.

The force is using police drones and the National Police Air Service helicopter as part of an extensive search to locate Rodney.

Officers are asking residents, landowners and businesses in the Sawley and wider Ripon area to check any sheds, outbuildings, garages, barns and other places where Rodney may have sought shelter.

He is known to walk across fields and down footpaths and tracks in Nidderdale.

NYP described him as a white British man with grey hair and a stooped posture.

They said he may be wearing a black woolly hat, a dark-coloured fleece, jogging bottoms and mismatched shoes.

The search comes with temperatures expected to drop to just 6C overnight with some light rain.

If you see Rodney, please call 999 immediately. If you have any other information that could assist the search, please call 101 and select option 1 to speak to the NYP Force Control Room.