Archive for October, 2009
Length of ALSAR Searches for Vulnerable Missing Persons
Thinking about survivability figures when I did my Missing Person Training Presentation for ISIS SAR this week, and after my brief post questioning whether the police “suspend” vulnerable missing person search too quickly, I thought I would take a brief look at the figures I have available to me and look for any evidence. In theory every ALSAR [...]
October 29, 2009
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: ALSAR, Misper Stats, Search Incidents, Survivability, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
ISIS SAR Missing Person Behaviour Training Presentation
ISIS SAR is the new ALSAR Unit covering Oxfordshire; I will write one day about the whole history of Oxfordshire Search & Rescue and ALSAR but suffice to say I’m pleased to now have an ALSAR Unit working in Oxfordshire (I just hope that Thames Valley Police will jump onboard soon too – but that’s [...]
October 28, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, ALSAR Presentation, ISIS SAR, Misper Stats, Oxfordshire Search and Rescue, Probability Density, Search Training, Survivability, Thames Valley Police, Track Offset Data, Visualising Missing Person Behaviour Statistics · Posted in: Search Presentations, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Do the police suspend vulnerable missing persons searches too quickly?
I awoke this morning with the need to write another quick post here – on the suspension of searching. I obviously discussed it slightly yesterday with the idea that we should search areas where outstanding high risk mispers could be; however, my recent revision of missing person behaviour statistics has obviously made me think more [...]
October 24, 2009
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Tags: ACPO, ALSAR, Guidance on the Management, High Risk Misper, Koester, Lost Person Behavior, Missing Person Behaviour Statistics, Recording and Investigation of Missing Persons, Search Planning, Survivability, Suspending a Search, Vulnerable Missing Person · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Two
Too often search exercises are run in the same old places. The reasons for this are clear – often close by, easy to park etc. etc. However, by doing this the exercise loses so much. TLs don’t need to navigate, SCs don’t need to think about RVs, Units don’t need to think about annoying residents [...]
October 23, 2009
· Robert Bradley · One Comment
Tags: ALSAR, High Risk Misper, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Incidents, Search Plan, Search Pre-Plan, Search Training, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Search Terminology
Apologies for those hoping this next post would the next installment of the search exercise planners handbook – don’t panic though, it will be written this week. First though, I’ve been thinking about some search terminology for a while and I wanted to get this off my chest now, as it were. So often within [...]
October 19, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Lowland Search, Search Control, Search Management, Search Plan, Search Tactics, Search Techniques, Search Terminology · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
