Do the police suspend vulnerable missing persons searches too quickly?
I awoke this morning with the need to write another quick post here – on the suspension of searching. I obviously discussed it slightly yesterday with the idea that we should search areas where outstanding high risk mispers could be; however, my recent revision of missing person behaviour statistics has obviously made me think more [...]
October 24, 2009
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Robert Bradley ·
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Tags: ACPO, ALSAR, Guidance on the Management, High Risk Misper, Koester, Lost Person Behavior, Missing Person Behaviour Statistics, Recording and Investigation of Missing Persons, Search Planning, Survivability, Suspending a Search, Vulnerable Missing Person · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Two
Too often search exercises are run in the same old places. The reasons for this are clear – often close by, easy to park etc. etc. However, by doing this the exercise loses so much. TLs don’t need to navigate, SCs don’t need to think about RVs, Units don’t need to think about annoying residents [...]
October 23, 2009
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Robert Bradley ·
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Tags: ALSAR, High Risk Misper, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Incidents, Search Plan, Search Pre-Plan, Search Training, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Missing People – support for missing children, vulnerable adults and families left in limbo.
In lowland search we only deal with a tiny fraction of all missing persons cases. It is sometimes easy to forget about all the other 200,000 thousand people who go missing every year whilst we concentrate on trying to save the lives of the hundred or so we deal with a year. The charity Missing People, [...]
October 6, 2009
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Robert Bradley ·
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Tags: ALSAR, Charity, High Risk Misper, Missing People, Missing Persons · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts


