Archive for March, 2011

Missing Rights Campaign

Recent events have had the timely effect of reminding me just how important the charity Missing People is; both in terms of publicising and campaigning for missing persons issues as well as supporting everyone involved in missing persons incidents from the family to the police and professionals. Their latest campaign is the “Missing Rights Campaign“; [...]

March 31, 2011 · Robert Bradley · No Comments
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2010 ACPO Guidance on the Management, Recording and Investigation of Missing Persons

I’ve only just started re-writing to the Re-Search website so there is quite a lot of material that has been published in the time I was not writing that I haven’t linked to. The ACPO Guidance on the Management, Recording and Investigation of Missing Persons is just one of those. Whilst this document concentrates very [...]

March 30, 2011 · Robert Bradley · No Comments
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Search and Rescue Blogs

Obviously I have started writing to this blog again – just in case you hadn’t noticed – but I’ve been wondering how many other search and rescue blogs there are out there. Searching for them, even on google, is quite difficult. Here are a few that I have found; Deb’s Search and Rescue Stories Ken [...]

March 29, 2011 · Robert Bradley · 5 Comments
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SAR on Facebook

A few weeks ago on the excellent SAR-L list the topic of Facebook and Social Networking sites came up. Recent high-profile ALSAR searches and the response of some individuals and non-ALSAR teams have brought this topic to the front of my mind. So what should the policy of teams and members be? One response to [...]

March 28, 2011 · Robert Bradley · One Comment
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Upsetting the locals

Well; I’ve been writing again for less than two weeks and I’m already getting complaints! Of course, some would wonder why it had taken that long but let’s be quite honest – I haven’t yet touched on the controversial stuff. It has got me thinking though. Both my major complaints this year have been along [...]

March 25, 2011 · Robert Bradley · 3 Comments
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