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
Geoff Newiss writes to the Missing People’s Blog
I have a great deal of time for anything that Geoff Newiss writes. Go back long enough and you can find some of his original police research on the investigation of missing persons cases, before the work of Charlie Hedges in his research and resulting ACPO guidance. Geoff Newiss went on to study the survivability [...]
April 13, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Charlie Hedges, Geoff Newiss, Missing People, Missing People Blog, Missing Persons · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts
Missing Rights Campaign
Recent events have had the timely effect of reminding me just how important the charity Missing People is; both in terms of publicising and campaigning for missing persons issues as well as supporting everyone involved in missing persons incidents from the family to the police and professionals. Their latest campaign is the “Missing Rights Campaign“; [...]
March 31, 2011
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Tags: Living in Limbo, Missing People, Missing Persons, Missing Rights · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts
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
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
