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…