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
Qualified Search Technician – a few thoughts
ALSAR is currently looking at what should be included in their SAR Tech course. I have no idea what their thought process is, or where they will go but I thought I would start the re-launch of the Re-Search website with my thoughts on ALSAR initial training and beyond. My first thought is that ALSAR [...]
March 15, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Technician, Basic Search Techniques Course, missing person behaviour, Qualified Search Technician, Search Team Leader, Team Leader Course · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
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
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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
Should we be “Clearing” areas in vulnerable missing person search?
Missing Person Behaviour Presentation to Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs kindly asked me along to give a presentation on missing person behaviour on Tuesday night. As part of this presentation I briefly discussed how survivability data helps prove search is an emergency. And, of course, if you accept that time [...]
January 15, 2010
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Tags: Berskshire Search & Rescue Dogs, Bob Koester, BSARD, Cleared, Dementia, Despondents, Grampian Stats, ISRID, Jo Joslyn, Lost Person Behavior, missing person behaviour, Search Areas, Search is an Emergency, Search Resources, Steve Upton, Success Fast · Posted in: Search Presentations, Search Thoughts
Missing Person Behaviour and SAR Callout Study
After several years of messing around I have finally decided – with much prompting and encouragement from others – to get around to studying missing person behaviour within the lowland search environment. ALSAR and LSDog teams deal with only a tiny fraction of all missing persons and indeed deal with only a small fraction of [...]
January 7, 2010
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Tags: ALSAR, Dementia, Despondents, ISRID, Lowland Search, LSDogs, missing person behaviour, Missing Person Behaviour Statistics, Missing Person Behaviour Study, Urban Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
