When Missing Person search goes horribly wrong
I seem to have written quite a bit about missing persons recently, rather than the physical search for them. This is because it is very easy for SAR volunteers to become cacooned in their own little bubble of SAR and forget about the “big picture”. Following on from my pieces on the effects of police [...]
May 16, 2011
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Tags: Irish Search Dogs, Missing Person Search, Paul Nolan Miralles · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts
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
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Tags: Misper, Missing Person Search, Police Search, PolSA · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
SAR on Facebook
A few weeks ago on the excellent SAR-L list the topic of Facebook and Social Networking sites came up. Recent high-profile ALSAR searches and the response of some individuals and non-ALSAR teams have brought this topic to the front of my mind. So what should the policy of teams and members be? One response to [...]
March 28, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Facebook, Missing Person Search, Publicity, SAR-L, Twitter, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · 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
Getting the Search Controller Assignment Right (First Time!)
According to ALSAR you are not qualified to manage or control a search unless you have passed an assessment to say you are competent to do so! I think this is quite right. I do not care how good a course you sat through – unless you can prove you have taken some of it [...]
January 21, 2010
· Robert Bradley · 2 Comments
Tags: ALSAR, Assessment, Charlie Hedges, Common Pitfalls, Missing Person Search, SAR Pre-Plan, Search Controller, Search Controller Assignment, Search Controllers Course, Search Manager, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
