Should we be “Clearing” areas in vulnerable missing person search?
Missing Person Behaviour Presentation to Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs kindly asked me along to give a presentation on missing person behaviour on Tuesday night. As part of this presentation I briefly discussed how survivability data helps prove search is an emergency. And, of course, if you accept that time [...]
January 15, 2010
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Tags: Berskshire Search & Rescue Dogs, Bob Koester, BSARD, Cleared, Dementia, Despondents, Grampian Stats, ISRID, Jo Joslyn, Lost Person Behavior, missing person behaviour, Search Areas, Search is an Emergency, Search Resources, Steve Upton, Success Fast · Posted in: Search Presentations, Search Thoughts
Missing Person Behaviour and SAR Callout Study
After several years of messing around I have finally decided – with much prompting and encouragement from others – to get around to studying missing person behaviour within the lowland search environment. ALSAR and LSDog teams deal with only a tiny fraction of all missing persons and indeed deal with only a small fraction of [...]
January 7, 2010
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Tags: ALSAR, Dementia, Despondents, ISRID, Lowland Search, LSDogs, missing person behaviour, Missing Person Behaviour Statistics, Missing Person Behaviour Study, Urban Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
Next Year on the Re-Search Website
2010 looks as if it is shaping up to be an extremely busy year for SAR work for me. The SAR Bookshop will be opening in January with a few titles, and I will be building the number of titles in stock as time goes by. [I think I'm supposed to sell some as well, [...]
December 17, 2009
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Tags: Aerial Search, Cleared, Dementia, Despondent, Health and Safety, missing person behaviour, Missing Persons Investigation, Post Traumatic Stress, Purposeful Wandering, SAR Bookshop, SAR Mapping, SAR World, Search Controller Assignment, Search Research, Search Theory, Suicide, The SAR Bookshop, Water Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts
How long before you can report a missing person to the police?
Looking through the statistics of how many people are visiting the Re-Search website last week I found someone had come to the site having typed “how long before you can report a missing person to the police?” into Google. For those that do not work in missing person search this is probably not a strange question to [...]
November 20, 2009
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Tags: 48 Hours, Child, Dementia, Despondent, High Risk Missing Person, Lowland Search and Rescue, Mental Health, Missing Person, Missing Person Risk Assessment, Missing Person Search, Out of Character, Police, Reporting Missing Persons, Suicidal, Vulnerable Missing Person · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Sussar, Midshires and SEBEV Callouts in the last three days
Continuing on from ALSAR’s busy weekend of callouts, three more vulnerable missing person searches have come to my attention. On the 15th, Sussar were “called out early [in the] morning to search for an elderly female with a dementia who had gone missing from her home in Peasmarsh.” [Read more here...] The 16th brought a callout for [...]
November 18, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Dementia, Midshires, SEBEV, Sussar, Thames Valley Police, Vulnerable Missing Person, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search News
