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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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: Misper, Missing Person Search, Police Search, PolSA · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
A Unifying Theory of Search
What a grand sounding title for a post? I couldn’t think of another title that summed up what I was hoping to achieve with the post. I’d like to try to explain how all search is linked. Each type of search contains the same elements, but depending on their quantity / use depends on how [...]
March 24, 2011
· Robert Bradley · 3 Comments
Tags: ALSAR, Lawrence Stone, Police Search, Search Theory, Theory of Optimal Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
SEBEV SAR assist Thames Valley Police in non-missing person search
Often police forces require man-power to carry out searches that are not for missing persons. These may be for objects discarded following a crime or similar. There is always the question of whether ALSAR Units should be involved in this sort of thing; but from the police’s viewpoint well-trained searchers who will act professionally and [...]
November 27, 2009
· Robert Bradley · One Comment
Tags: ALSAR, CID, Police Search, SEBEV, SEBEV SAR · 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
· Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: Abduction, Investigation, Missing Child, Missing People, Missing Person, Missing Persons Investigation, Missing Persons Search, Police, Police Search · Posted in: 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
· Robert Bradley · 2 Comments
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
