My efforts to start a psychic search and rescue team have been thwarted! You may remember a while back I wrote about using psychics for missing person search. I decided to question the UK’s Police Forces on their use of psychics.
I asked them;
The ACPO Practice Advice on Search Management and Procedures suggests that police forces record contacts from psychics offering advice on missing persons searches, in order to assess their credibility.
Can you tell me if your constabulary records such contacts? If so, can you give me some detail into how useful they have been (or not) as the case may be.
Unfortunately the UK Police do not seem to be interested in using psychics. How can I tell? With the exception of the first reply, the replies can be categorised into three types.
1. We do not use psychics.
2. We do not hold any information on our use of psychics
and 3. Whilst our use of them would be recorded, it would only be recorded on an individual incident record.
Talk about not being taken seriously. How can the police tell if PsychSAR are any good, if they don’t keep any records of when we have been useful? Or, if they do, keep them hidden away in their records!
I could be persuaded that it was a conspiracy – hiding the TRUTH from others! But unfortunately I’m not a sad conspiracy theory geek [although have you heard the one about Harrowdown Hill!], nor a believer in spiritualism and so on.
The reason the police don’t use psychics or record much about them if they are approached, is that they are useless!
Bring me evidence to the contrary and I’ll believe! But until then, leave the missing person search to the professionals!
OK – I’ve had my little rant – normal service again tomorrow…
A while back one of our members (who trained bloodhounds) appeared on a TV show where they pitted pshycic resources against the conventional equivalent. The blood hound tracked the misper quicker than the pshycic, but the pshycic got to within 10 meters of the misper fast (had he been serach trained, he would have made a find very promptly). As such, I am not convinced it is all nonsense. Nor am I convinced it isn’t. I have no idea how objective the test really was, nor would I base a conclusion on one experiment. It may be that by fine tuning a human being’s natural awareness of other human beings (you know when someone is watching you) that this effect could be achieved, or it may indeed be magic. As developers of SAR science, we should be encouraging psychics to participate in properly designed experiments, rather than writing off something because we don’t understand it. What we don’t know always exceeds what we do (even in your case Rob
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As I said – I’m always willing to be proved wrong!
I’ll even go so far as to point any psychics out there towards a one million dollar prize – available to anyone who can prove they have a paranormal ability.
You can find it at http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html
No prizes, but I’d be happy to design some experiments for any potential SAR psychics based on real misper scenarios.
I was once accused of misplacing my husband’s passport just hours before his flight-he wasn’t angry at all..lol..! Anyway, 5 of us took the house apart with no joy. In desperation I made a pendulum, using a threaded needle, to ask ‘yes/no’ Qs and we found it in minutes…where HE had tucked it away…! It freaked us all out a tad… So if objects can be found this way, why not people…? Go to your local spiritualist church and get some free psychics to experiment with..?