The Effects of Police Cuts on Missing Person Search
Following on from Geoff Newiss’s post on the Missing People blog last week I thought I would write something about how the police cuts are likely to effect the physical search side of missing person incidents. There is no doubt that missing person’s incidents will be effected. The question is how, and what is your [...]
April 18, 2011
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: ALSAR, Geoff Newiss, Missing People, Missing Persons, Missing Persons Investigation, Missing Persons Search, Neighbourhood Watch Search Teams, Police Cuts · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Next Year on the Re-Search Website
2010 looks as if it is shaping up to be an extremely busy year for SAR work for me. The SAR Bookshop will be opening in January with a few titles, and I will be building the number of titles in stock as time goes by. [I think I'm supposed to sell some as well, [...]
December 17, 2009
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Tags: Aerial Search, Cleared, Dementia, Despondent, Health and Safety, missing person behaviour, Missing Persons Investigation, Post Traumatic Stress, Purposeful Wandering, SAR Bookshop, SAR Mapping, SAR World, Search Controller Assignment, Search Research, Search Theory, Suicide, The SAR Bookshop, Water Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Government sets up Missing Persons Taskforce
I was told this was happening a few weeks ago but hadn’t heard anything “publicly” until today. The BBC has the following report; A taskforce is being set up to examine how the police, councils and other agencies can improve their response when people are reported missing. The group will look at areas like data [...]
December 10, 2009
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Tags: Missing Person Search, Missing Persons, Missing Persons Incidents, Missing Persons Investigation, Missing Persons Taskforce · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts
How do the police search for a missing child?
Following on from last Friday’s post taken from the website’s statistics and questions people have asked to get to this website; I found this question this week so thought I would try to briefly answer it. The police response to a missing person incident can be split into two distinct, yet equally important (to take [...]
November 27, 2009
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Tags: Abduction, Investigation, Missing Child, Missing People, Missing Person, Missing Persons Investigation, Missing Persons Search, Police, Police Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Common Pitfalls in Vulnerable Missing Person Search
The first item on the UKLSI Search Controllers course competencies is “recognise common pitfalls in lowland vulnerable missing person search”. These are taken straight from the 2002 research paper, Missing You Already by Charlie Hedges. In this paper, Hedges notes, Problems encountered in this area usually relate to: • Not starting the search early enough [...]
September 29, 2009
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Tags: Charlie Hedges, Learning the Lessons, Missing Persons Investigation, Missing Persons Search, Missing You Already, PolSA, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts, Search Training
