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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Tags: ALSAR, Geoff Newiss, Missing People, Missing Persons, Missing Persons Investigation, Missing Persons Search, Neighbourhood Watch Search Teams, Police Cuts · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Oxfordshire Search and Rescue
Oxfordshire, against all the odds, has managed to find itself with two major search and rescue teams; this post has been set up to help you distinguish between the two! ISIS SAR is the Oxfordshire Lowland Search and Rescue Team. Isis Search and Rescue (ISAR) is a volunteer team primarily set up to assist the [...]
January 5, 2010
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Tags: ERT-SAR, Humanitarian Aid, International Disaster Response, ISIS SAR, Lowland Search and Rescue, Missing Persons Search, Search and Rescue Team · Posted in: Search Links
Search and Rescue; Autism and Missing Persons
Last week one of Re-Search’s readers was in Canada. He e-mailed about an on-going search for a seven-year old autistic missing child. Interestingly the big story on the TV out here is a missing autistic boy, missing for 2 days in heavy snow wearing a light shirt. They found him today, still alive, no update [...]
December 17, 2009
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Tags: Autism, missing person behaviour, Missing Persons, Missing Persons Search, Search and Rescue · Posted in: Search Links, 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
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Three
Once you have decided on potential search areas, based upon historic data etc. you then need to thing about the practicalities of the exercise. Issues like where will you run the search from? RVs, parking, welfare and so on. Parking is always an issue when search volunteers are traveling from around the county to the [...]
November 2, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Missing Persons Search, Publicity, SAR De-briefing, Search Areas, Search Control, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Training, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
