Next Year on the Re-Search Website
2010 looks as if it is shaping up to be an extremely busy year for SAR work for me.
The SAR Bookshop will be opening in January with a few titles, and I will be building the number of titles in stock as time goes by. [I think I'm supposed to sell some as well, or something?]
SAR World will be starting up and I want to see that work.
And, of course, I want to continue to build this website after a great start [in my view] in 2009.
When I started out, I was very concerned that I might quickly run out of things to write about so I started a notebook – jotting down any ideas that came to me that I couldn’t write about there and then. Hopefully in 2010 I will get around to writing some more about some of these ideas;
- Passing your SC Assignment
- Search Research ideas, topics and projects
- Searching in the Dark!
- Mapping for SAR
- Investigation for Missing Persons Incidents
- Water Search
- Aerial Search
- “Cleared”
- Health & Safety in Search
- Post Traumatic Stress in SAR
- “Patchwork” Search
- Purposeful Wandering
[a defence of; can you believe I might need to?] - Suicide
- Dementia
- Missing Person Behaviour
- Search Theory
and much, much more.
If I have missed something out, or you want to see me write something earlier in the New Year rather than later – let me know!
December 17, 2009
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: Aerial Search, Cleared, Dementia, Despondent, Health and Safety, missing person behaviour, Missing Persons Investigation, Post Traumatic Stress, Purposeful Wandering, SAR Bookshop, SAR Mapping, SAR World, Search Controller Assignment, Search Research, Search Theory, Suicide, The SAR Bookshop, Water Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts
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going to be a busy year for you then, but saying that 2009 has been quite busy for hantsar with 42 requests for assistance. We came close in 2006 with 31.
How about how SAR teams handle the quiet periods. People join units for the search and rescue but when no one goes missing or our services are not required how can we keep the troops motivated?
Not really search theory but equally if you don’t retain the volunteers.
How about cross unit training?
Cross unit training would be something really good to discuss… I’m not sure that it happens enough in ALSAR. Certainly any Isis SAR exercise would come with an open invitation to any ALSAR or LSDogs unit or individual member to attend as we feel it’s important to work with the teams we’ll be assisting on live callouts. Maybe SAR World would be a good place to think about sharing training dates, courses, exercises, etc? I can see that website as being really useful.
Looking forward to all the new posts Rob. Passing the SC assessment would be a good one to come early?? Not that there’s any personal motivation to want to read that one at all…
Defending purposeful wandering….. seriously?
Also, there’s something niggling away in the back of my mind about the role of ALSAR in people minds and how they see their teams in relation to ALSAR.
Thats a fairly cryptic statement I know, but there’s something about the language used by people (and it might just be that only) that says to me that some people consider themselves to be an ALSAR team first and foremost instead of an autonomous Lowland SAR team. It’s almost as they they consider themselves owned (for want of a better word) by ALSAR. After all you dont hear Mountain Rescue teams describing themselves as MRC teams.
Jennie mentioned above that this is ‘not something that happens enough in ALSAR’ and that got me thinking, why does it need ALSAR to happen at all. It almost seems we sticking ALSAR with the blame for these things not happening (Jennie, thats not a criticism of your post)
Now, also consider that most LSAR teams will offer some form of additional services to the community such as First Aid at events, disaster/critical incident/major incident support etc and all these are clearly outside of the remit of ALSAR.
Are we ALSAR teams or are we affiliated to ALSAR?
Does it even matter?
It might be time for another coffee.
Interesting point Kris, I have always thought of it as that we are ALSAR teams in different counties, which is why I said “in ALSAR” – to be a way of saying “between all UK LSAR units”. I suppose when I say ALSAR I just mean all the units collectively. I am very new to everything, and probably don’t have the same point of veiw as everyone else – you all have a much deeper knowledge of SAR. Also, I didn’t mean to leave the blame with ALSAR as a body, just meant all units need to plan how to work together and include each other in their training. Just a difference of wording..
How do units want to be seen? As ALSAR units? Or ALSAR affiliated units?
Aparrently in some areas purposeful wandering needs defending…..
Hi Jennie,
Different points of view are great, without them we dont innovate and develop. I know what you mean with regards to ALSAR and that you werent blaming them.
Speaking entirely personally I would see my team as being affiliated to ALSAR. In fact when ALSAR was first created the aim was that teams were ‘affiliated’ as ALSAR didnt want to be seen as a governing body for SAR teams.
In theory (note: theory, not practice) there should be nothing stopping an LSAR team being affiliated to ALSAR and MRC, IKEA, and the tufty club if they want to be
ikea – the flat pack search and rescue team. I want to be affiliated to them. Flat pack control vehicles and the like. Sorry, could not resist.
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