Website for PolSAs?

I’ve thought for a long time that PolSAs need a lot more support and training in missing person search. If they are lucky they get sent on a short course on misper search; some of these courses are very good, some not so. Then, having had a couple of days instruction, they are expected to totally [...]

April 27, 2011 · Robert Bradley · 2 Comments
Tags: Misper, Missing Person Search, Police Search, PolSA · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training

Ahhhh … Is that the misper?

Well, it’s Mental Health in SAR Week this week on Re-Search, and following on from yesterday’s post on the causes of mental ill-effects in SAR we really ought to discuss making a find. For the most part we will be discussing finding a deceased misper and just what might happen afterwards. So imagine the scene, [...]

April 13, 2011 · Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: Mental Health, Mental Ill-Effects, Misper, Search Dogs, Search Volunteers, Team Leader, Team Leader Course · Posted in: Search Thoughts

Searching in the Dark

You may remember a long while back me writing a short news article introducing a Specialist Night / Low Light Search Technician Certification Course from Gary Foo. Several comments were made at the time, with Jennie Webster making the valid point that; Maybe explicit courses such as this would make it more obvious that ALSAR teams can [...]

January 27, 2010 · Robert Bradley · 10 Comments
Tags: ACPO, ALSAR, Bob Koester, Ed Johnson, Gary Foo, Greg Fuller, Jennie Webster, Misper, Missing Person Search, Night Search, Night Searching, POD, POS, Rrobert J Koester, Search Team Leader, Search Technician, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Thoughts

Calculating Probability Density Distribution for Missing Person Search

The first of the four elements of the optimal search problem is having a probability density distribution (predicting the likelihood that an object is in any particular search area or region.) To achieve this during a Maritime Search and Rescue Incident one takes into account the accuracy of the initial location report, the current, wind [...]

January 26, 2010 · Robert Bradley · One Comment
Tags: Bob Koester, Consensus, Lost Person Behavior, Maritime Search and Rescue, Misper, missing person behaviour, POA, Probability Density, Probability Density Distribution, Probability of Area, Robert J Koester, Search Planner, Search Sector, Search Terrain, Theory of Optimal Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts

Johnnie Walker’s Missing Person Search Analogy

I’m pleased today to be able to offer you a special guest post to the Re-Search website. Johnnie Walker from Sussex Search and Rescue sent me an e-mail today offering the following; I have found myself using the following analogy quite a bit. Is there a place for it on your website? I know that [...]

December 3, 2009 · Robert Bradley · 4 Comments
Tags: Grid Search, Hub, Misper, Missing Child, Missing Children, Missing Person Search, Reflectors, Scenario Based Planning, Search is an Emergency, Search Tactics, Spokes, Sussar, Sussex Search and Rescue · Posted in: Guest Posts, 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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