UK Missing Person Behaviour Report 2011
Everyone that knows me well, knows how much importance I place on good evidence for everything we do. To get this evidence takes time, effort, hard work and research! I’m so very pleased then that Dave Perkins, Pete Roberts, and Ged Feeney have published their latest report into the UK’s misper stats. The report can [...]
March 16, 2011
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Tags: Centre for Search Research, Dave Perkins, Ged Feeney, Misper Stats, missing person behaviour, Pete Roberts, Search Management, Search Planning · Posted in: Search Links, Search Research, Search Thoughts
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Five
Picking your search exercise’s SCENARIO One of the other things that often let’s down ALSAR search exercises is their scenarios. This is despite the fact that many search exercise planners and training officers spend a large amount of time coming up with these fantastic scenarios [or more accurately because they do!] Classic examples of this [...]
November 18, 2009
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Tags: Abduction, ALSAR, De-briefing, Dementia, Despondent, Hub, IPP, Lost Person Behavior, Misper, Misper Stats, Missing Child, Missing Children, Route and Path Search, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Exercise Scenario, Search Scenario, Search Training, Suicidal, Team Leader, Training Officer, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Length of ALSAR Searches for Vulnerable Missing Persons
Thinking about survivability figures when I did my Missing Person Training Presentation for ISIS SAR this week, and after my brief post questioning whether the police “suspend” vulnerable missing person search too quickly, I thought I would take a brief look at the figures I have available to me and look for any evidence. In theory every ALSAR [...]
October 29, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Misper Stats, Search Incidents, Survivability, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
ISIS SAR Missing Person Behaviour Training Presentation
ISIS SAR is the new ALSAR Unit covering Oxfordshire; I will write one day about the whole history of Oxfordshire Search & Rescue and ALSAR but suffice to say I’m pleased to now have an ALSAR Unit working in Oxfordshire (I just hope that Thames Valley Police will jump onboard soon too – but that’s [...]
October 28, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, ALSAR Presentation, ISIS SAR, Misper Stats, Oxfordshire Search and Rescue, Probability Density, Search Training, Survivability, Thames Valley Police, Track Offset Data, Visualising Missing Person Behaviour Statistics · Posted in: Search Presentations, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Visualising Missing Person Behaviour Statistics
Over the last couple of days several people have asked me for copies of the presentations that I did for the 2009 ALSAR Conference. As these are very large and difficult to e-mail I have put them online here. The first presentation was a discussion on how to make missing person behaviour statistics more interesting [...]
September 9, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Misper Stats, missing person behaviour · Posted in: Search Presentations, Search Training
