Will the police be downgrading missing person calls?
Following on from my posts on the effects of police cuts on missing person search and Geoff Newiss’s post on police cuts I felt the need to do more research. Sometimes I wish I didn’t bother… Here is a quote from a Home Office Report from last year that I had missed until now … [...]
May 9, 2011
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Tags: ACPO, Jan Berry, Missing Person, Police Cuts, Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing · Posted in: Search News, Search Research, Search Thoughts
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
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Tags: ACPO, ACPO Guidance, Missing Persons Bureau, NPIA, Search Management · Posted in: Search Books, Search Links, Search Thoughts
Searching in the Dark
You may remember a long while back me writing a short news article introducing a Specialist Night / Low Light Search Technician Certification Course from Gary Foo. Several comments were made at the time, with Jennie Webster making the valid point that; Maybe explicit courses such as this would make it more obvious that ALSAR teams can [...]
January 27, 2010
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Tags: ACPO, ALSAR, Bob Koester, Ed Johnson, Gary Foo, Greg Fuller, Jennie Webster, Misper, Missing Person Search, Night Search, Night Searching, POD, POS, Rrobert J Koester, Search Team Leader, Search Technician, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Thoughts
PsychSAR – The Psychic Search and Rescue Team
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 [...]
January 14, 2010
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Tags: ACPO, Conspiracy Theory, Harrowdown Hill, Psychics and Missing Person Search, PsychSAR, Search Management · Posted in: Search Thoughts
First National Search and Rescue Mountain Bike Instructor Scheme
Passing on SAR news as it comes to me, I thought it appropriate whilst talking about Gary Foo’s book Emergency Response & Search & Rescue to pass on this news item found on the book’s website. Working in partnership Black Badge are establishing the first National Search and Rescue Mountain Bike Instructor Scheme with ACPO (Association of Chiefs of [...]
November 13, 2009
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Tags: ACPO, Black Badge, Emergency Response & Search & Rescue, Gary Foo, MIAS, Mountain Bike Instructor, Mountain Bike Instructor Award, National Search and Rescue Mountain Bike Instructor Scheme, SAR · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts, Search Training
