Raising funds for SAR
I hope you all enjoyed my April 1st step into fantasy; Psychic Search and Rescue indeed! However, it, along with a couple of articles I read last week did lead me on to an important topic: Raising charitable funds for search and rescue. How did I get to this? Let me start to explain. I’m [...]
April 4, 2011
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: ALSAR, Charity, Essex SAR, Hantsar, Psychic Search and Rescue, Psychics and Missing Person Search, SAR Charity, Search and Rescue Charity, Search Charity · Posted in: Search Thoughts
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
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Tags: ALSAR, Facebook, Missing Person Search, Publicity, SAR-L, Twitter, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts
A Unifying Theory of Search
What a grand sounding title for a post? I couldn’t think of another title that summed up what I was hoping to achieve with the post. I’d like to try to explain how all search is linked. Each type of search contains the same elements, but depending on their quantity / use depends on how [...]
March 24, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Lawrence Stone, Police Search, Search Theory, Theory of Optimal Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
ALSAR and the Search for Sian O’Callaghan
One thing that makes me proud of being associated with ALSAR is the fact that when they are involved in high profile searches like the on-going search for Sian O’Callaghan, no one knows about it! No one does what we do for recognition, but we all know that our funding by charitable donations relies upon [...]
March 23, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, High Profile Search, LSDogs, SARAID, Savernake Forest, Search Technician, Search Techniques, Sian O'Callaghan, Wilsar, Wiltshire Police · Posted in: Search Links, Search News, Search Thoughts
Inspiring Search and Rescue Courses
I had the pleasure this weekend of teaching on yet another excellent UKLSI lowland search and rescue course. There are so many comments that can be made that I think several posts this week will be referring back to the weekend, but the one thing that really sticks in my mind is the inspiration I [...]
March 22, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Techniques Course, Best Kept Secret, Lowland Search Technician, Lowland Search Volunteers, SAR Volunteers, Search Technician, Super Heroes, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Courses, Search Thoughts, Search Training
