Archive for April, 2011
Who’s leading your SAR team?
Agatha Christie may have had it right with her Miss Marple character. She would, as I’m sure you all know, relate whatever murder she was working on at the time to some obscure little event in St Mary Mead or somewhere – the little village she lived in anway. So I’m going to relate a [...]
April 28, 2011
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: SAR Charity, SAR Team Leadership, Team Committees · Posted in: Search Thoughts
The Reconnect Network
I make no apologies for posting yet another link to the Missing People blog, but they are doing some amazing work that fully complements missing person search and rescue work and I will keep saying it until it happens – we need to be working closer with each other! This week’s article is on the [...]
April 27, 2011
· Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: Missing People, Reconnect Network · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts
Website for PolSAs?
I’ve thought for a long time that PolSAs need a lot more support and training in missing person search. If they are lucky they get sent on a short course on misper search; some of these courses are very good, some not so. Then, having had a couple of days instruction, they are expected to totally [...]
April 27, 2011
· Robert Bradley · 2 Comments
Tags: Misper, Missing Person Search, Police Search, PolSA · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Praise for Re-Search
Another grand sounding title to draw you in … sorry! I’ve been looking through the Spam comments that all websites get, especially those as popular as Re-Search (more on that in a bit…) and I have found out just how good I am! Here are a few of the comments; (I’m thinking of starting a [...]
April 26, 2011
· Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: Mountain Bikes, Purposeful Wandering, Starting a Search and Rescue Team, Surrey Search and rescue · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Ten people who know more than me about SAR!
One of the things I’m getting fed up about in SAR is the parochialism – “I created this, it’s mine and don’t anyone dare criticise it! So I’m going to keep it all to myself” … and so on, and so on. I’m sure everyone within volunteer SAR has had experience of this … all [...]
April 25, 2011
· Robert Bradley · 3 Comments
Tags: Bob Koester, Charles Twardy, Daryl Toogood, Don Cooper, Ian 'Max' Maxwell, Jack Frost, Kris Manning, Lou Holmes, Peter Bell, Tony Jones · Posted in: Search Thoughts
