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. Â Is there a place for it on your website? I know that [...]
December 3, 2009
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Robert Bradley · 
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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
Using Psychics for Missing Person Search
Some of my more fun-loving colleagues have often commented that I should set up a Psychic Search and Rescue Team – PsychSAR(?). They joke about this, not because they believe in my ability to predict where the misper is [although you can seem pretty damn psychic with a good knowledge of misper behaviour stats!] – [...]
November 26, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, FOI, missing person behaviour, Missing Person Search, Police, Police Search, Psychic, Psychic Search and Rescue, Psychics and Missing Person Search, PsychSAR · Posted in: Search Thoughts
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
· Robert Bradley · 2 Comments
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
How long before you can report a missing person to the police?
Looking through the statistics of how many people are visiting the Re-Search website last week I found someone had come to the site having typed “how long before you can report a missing person to the police?” into Google. For those that do not work in missing person search this is probably not a strange question to [...]
November 20, 2009
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Tags: 48 Hours, Child, Dementia, Despondent, High Risk Missing Person, Lowland Search and Rescue, Mental Health, Missing Person, Missing Person Risk Assessment, Missing Person Search, Out of Character, Police, Reporting Missing Persons, Suicidal, Vulnerable Missing Person · Posted in: Search Thoughts
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
