Following on from yesterday’s Starting a Search and Rescue Team piece I looked in on a “team” that I have been watching for a while. I couldn’t quite work out which way they were going.
However, their latest Chairman’s Annual Report contained some very interesting, and in light of recent debate insightful, news;
In conclusion, the past year and the next, 2009 and 2010 will be regarded as the watershed when the Sky Watch Civil Air Patrol sheds its ‘amateur’ status and moves forward to become the third element of the front line of the voluntary sector in the United Kingdom. This front line has, for many years included the RNLI at sea and the civil mountain and lowland rescue teams on the land. We can now add a third element in the air that covers both the land and the sea. The Civil Air Patrol will add value to the humanitarian activities of the other two elements by providing what is often described as an ‘eye in the sky’. [Read more here...]
I obviously await future developments but here is a group, very much as Leigh commented yesterday, having been set up for a while now “growing up” and becoming more professional. Rather than dictating what they can do, they are working with other statutory and voluntary groups to discover the real “need” and changing to the benefit of all.
