Oxfordshire Search and Rescue

Oxfordshire, against all the odds, has managed to find itself with two major search and rescue teams; this post has been set up to help you distinguish between the two! ISIS SAR is the Oxfordshire Lowland Search and Rescue Team. Isis Search and Rescue (ISAR) is a volunteer team primarily set up to assist the [...]

January 5, 2010 · Robert Bradley · One Comment
Tags: ERT-SAR, Humanitarian Aid, International Disaster Response, ISIS SAR, Lowland Search and Rescue, Missing Persons Search, Search and Rescue Team · Posted in: Search Links

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 · Robert Bradley · No Comments
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

ALSAR on Dartmoor

A number of ALSAR Units sent members down to Dartmoor Rescue Group’s annual training weekend. It is a tribute to the professional working relationship that ALSAR and MR E&W have that ALSAR was invited to send participants to this event [again!] Members from Hantsar, ISIS SAR, SEBEV, SSART, Sussar, and Wilsar all attended and from [...]

November 30, 2009 · Robert Bradley · 13 Comments
Tags: ALSAR, Dartmoor Rescue Group, Hantsar, ISIS SAR, Mountain Rescue, MR E&W, Search Training, SEBEV, SSART, Sussar, Wilsar · Posted in: Search News, Search Training

Hampshire Search and Rescue Team Search for Missing Female in Netley

Hantsar had a callout over the weekend for a missing female in the Netley area. Braving the severe gales searchers from Hantsar, Dorsar, Sussar, Isis SAR and Lowland Search Dogs (Southern) attended. The callout followed a phone call to the police where a woman claimed she had been indecently assaulted in a park, but did not [...]

November 16, 2009 · Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: Dorsar, Dorset Search and Rescue, Hampshire Search and Rescue, Hantsar, ISIS SAR, ISIS Search and Rescue, Lowland Search, Lowland Search Dogs, Lowland Search Dogs (Southern), Lowland Search Teams, Missing Person Search, Sussar, Sussex Search and Rescue · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts

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This month's feature is the Missing Rights Campaign being run by Missing People.

If your house is burgled you are automatically offered emotional, practical and legal support. If your child goes missing you may get nothing.

Missing People. are calling on the Government to give families of missing people the same basic rights as victims of crime.

Over 250,000 people go missing in the UK every year. While most of us will have read or heard about a disappearance, little is understood about the emotional, legal and financial burdens it can bring to those closest to the missing person. Families left behind face their homes being seized, jobs being lost, divorce, social stigma and suicidal thoughts.

Here are the detailed aims and objectives of the Missing Rights Campaign. Without your support, though, they will not be able to bring about change for families of missing people.

Aim #1:
Families of missing people should know everything possible is being done to find their missing loved one.

Objectives:
•Every region to have a local missing persons coordinator who will hold local services to account
•Every family to have a named single point of contact in the police force dealing with their missing loved one
•All unidentified bodies to be cross matched with missing person reports

Aim #2:
Families affected by a disappearance should have access to support.

Objectives:
•Every family of a missing person to be signposted to Missing People’s free emotional, practical and legal support services by the police
•A network of specially trained counsellors to be developed to support the unique needs of families of missing people

Aim #3:
Families left behind should be spared the pain of unnecessary financial and legal bureaucracy.

Objectives:
•All banks to introduce standard mortgage arrangements for families of missing people
•All insurance companies to enable families to freeze or take over their missing relative’s policy payments.
•Presumption of Death Act to be introduced in England of Wales

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