Mental Health in SAR Week
I had the pleasure of talking to Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs last week on Mental Health, Mental Well-Being and Mental Preparedness for SAR. As always with these topics it was quite heavy at times, but it was also a great bonding activity and good humoured. It is always a hard one for the trainer/facilitator; you [...]
April 11, 2011
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: Emergency Services, Firefighters, Mental Health, Mental Ill-Effects, Mental Preparedness, Mental Well-Being, Paramedics, Police, SAR Volunteers · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Starting a Search and Rescue Team
The comment made by Brian Johnson on the Inland Flood Rescue Association post started me thinking. He noted that “someone had to take charge and put all of the teams into some useful context.” This lead me to thinking about SAR teams without a role… Johnnie Walker commented that T24 “do not provide the services [...]
February 3, 2010
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Tags: ALSAR, Brian Johnson, Callout, Inland Flood Rescue Association, Johnnie Walker, Kris Manning, Lowland Search Dogs Sussex, Police, SAR Charity, SAR Groups, SAR Team, SAR Training Exercise, STAR Technical & Rescue Team, Sussar, T24 · Posted in: Search Thoughts
A Defence of Purposeful Wandering
Johnnie Walker a long while back made a throwaway comment when he was commenting on his own Search Analogy; I know of Police Services who ban purposeful wandering by their search volunteers. Yes, you read that right. Not insist on it. Ban it! [Read it here if you don't believe he wrote it...] I have [...]
January 13, 2010
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Tags: ALSAR, Johnnie Walker, POD, Police, PolSA, Probability of Detection, Purposeful Wandering, Search Controllers Course, Search Techniques, Search Theory, Search Volunteers, UKLSI · Posted in: 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
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
