Search exercise planners handbook – Part Six
How many clues can you find? I often hear of search exercise planners and Training Officers trying to add motivation to an exercise by ensuring that there are loads of clues dotted around for teams to find. There are two comments I have regarding this practice; One; In the lowland search environment it is extremely [...]
November 24, 2009
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Tags: Basic Search Techniques Course, BST, Clues, Lowland Search, Missing Person Search, Search Effort, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Management Team, SMT, Spaced Out Searchers, Team Leader Course, Tracker, Tracking, Training Officer · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
ALSAR and the media
Yesterday I wrote about a Hantsar callout. I included a link to a news article on the search. Although I’d read the article I foolishly hadn’t scrolled down to the comments section. Every newcomer to lowland search is given the same training in dealing with the media – we don’t talk to them about specific [...]
November 17, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Hantsar, Lowland Search, LSDogs, Media, Missing Persons, Police, Search Expert, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Thoughts, 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
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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
SEBEV Search and Rescue
I started my lowland search “career” with my local ALSAR Unit, SEBEV – although back then [that makes me sound old!] they were called South East Berkshire Emergency Volunteers. I still remember my “ID” – A16! There were some very, very well known and respected SAR members in the Unit back then and SEBEV was considered one of [...]
November 9, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Kris Manning, Lowland Search, Lowland Search Community, SAR, SEBEV, South East Berkshire Emergency Volunteers · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts
Training in Visual Search for SAR
I recently started to read Mark Gleason’s paper – THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN REMAINS IN THE SEARCH AND RESCUE ENVIRONMENT. I’d downloaded it a while back and skimmed it, but hadn’t sat and thought about it much. I got as far as the first page before I got very distracted by something he wrote about “search [...]
November 4, 2009
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Tags: Global-focal Model, Lowland Search, SAR, Search Images, Search Techniques, Search Training, Sweep Width, Tracking, Visual Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts, Search Training
