Busy Christmas and New Year for SAR Volunteers
As I slowly start to get my mind back into the real world after two weeks of Christmas activities, and start thinking about SAR again, it would be inappropriate not to mention the hard work that many SAR volunteers put in over my Christmas break. Quite a few Christmases ago Bob Geldof implored us all to think about [...]
January 4, 2010
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: ALSAR, Autism, Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs, Buckinghamshire Search and Rescue, Civil Contingencies, Despondent, Essex Search and Rescue, Hampshire Search and Rescue, Johnnie Walker, Kris Manning, LSDogs, Midshires Search and Rescue, SAR Volunteers, SEBEV Search and Rescue, Sussex Search and Rescue, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search News, 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
ISIS SAR Search Exercise Evaluation
From the way I write you would think that ALSAR is falling apart; I keep saying “one of the things we do badly is…”. And guess what? Here is yet another thing that I believe ALSAR doesn’t do well at. Sharing knowledge; especially feedback and learning points from search exercise de-briefs and evaluations. But one [...]
December 16, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Despondent, Dog Search Team, ISIS SAR, Kayak Search Team, LSDogs, Mountain Bike Search Team, Rope Access, Search Controller, Search Exercise, Search Training, SEBEV SAR, TASR, Technical and Specialist Rescue, Thames Valley Police, TVP, Water Access, Wilsar · Posted in: Guest Posts, Search News, Search Training
The Search for Dr David Kelly
This weekend saw yet another round of “experts” calling for more inquiries into the circumstances of the death of Dr David Kelly; with news reports in the Daily Mail, The Times and BBC News. All the news reports mention that his body was found in 2003. Very few mention the detail of the search; for [...]
December 7, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Despondent, Dr David Kelly, Hutton Inquiry, LSDogs, Misper Search, Search Volunteers · Posted in: Search News, 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
