Archive for November, 2009
Busy “events” weekend for SEBEV
All ALSAR Units are charities – they rely upon donations to run their valuable service to the police, searching for vulnerable missing persons. Some Units assist in the running of major events to collect donations. This might be providing first aid cover, or marshalling, or water safety cover, or just decent communications. SEBEV had two [...]
November 30, 2009
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: ALSAR, Event Marshalling, Event Support, First Aid Cover, Fundraising, SEBEV, Vulnerable Missing Person Search, Water Safety · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts
Staffordshire SAR Team win £50,000 from People’s Millions Big Lottery Fund
You will probably remember me posting a plea from Bethan from SSART last week for help. Well the good news is that they won the £50,000 which will go towards a new control vehicle. All ALSAR teams are charities. They rely upon your help to run their valuable service, helping search for vulnerable missing persons. [...]
November 30, 2009
· Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: ALSAR, Peoples Millions, SSART, Staffordshire Search and Rescue, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search News
ALSAR on Dartmoor
A number of ALSAR Units sent members down to Dartmoor Rescue Group’s annual training weekend. It is a tribute to the professional working relationship that ALSAR and MR E&W have that ALSAR was invited to send participants to this event [again!] Members from Hantsar, ISIS SAR, SEBEV, SSART, Sussar, and Wilsar all attended and from [...]
November 30, 2009
· Robert Bradley · 13 Comments
Tags: ALSAR, Dartmoor Rescue Group, Hantsar, ISIS SAR, Mountain Rescue, MR E&W, Search Training, SEBEV, SSART, Sussar, Wilsar · Posted in: Search News, Search Training
Evidence Based Practice in Search
UKLSI Conference Presentation 2008 I was reminded of this presentation I did last year at the UKLSI Conference, held within Sussex by Sussar and Sussex Police, when hearing of someone reading Koester’s explanation of search theory in his book, Lost Person Behavior. I had not yet received my copy, unlike a certain Wilsar Search Manager, but was [...]
November 30, 2009
· Robert Bradley · 3 Comments
Tags: Evidence Based Practice in Search, Koester, Lost Person Behavior, Sussar, Sussex Police, Sussex Search and Rescue, UKLSI, UKLSI Conference · Posted in: Search Presentations, Search Thoughts
SEBEV SAR assist Thames Valley Police in non-missing person search
Often police forces require man-power to carry out searches that are not for missing persons. These may be for objects discarded following a crime or similar. There is always the question of whether ALSAR Units should be involved in this sort of thing; but from the police’s viewpoint well-trained searchers who will act professionally and [...]
November 27, 2009
· Robert Bradley · One Comment
Tags: ALSAR, CID, Police Search, SEBEV, SEBEV SAR · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts
