What is a Search Pre-Plan?
As Daryl asked so nicely I’ve decided to write some more about search pre-plans and what should go in one. Different SAR teams have different templates, content and so on. It is difficult then to give a definitive answer. However, the way to look at the question is not what should go in the pre-plan, but [...]
December 8, 2009
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Tags: Control Vehicle, Daryl Toogood, Mapping, Rope Access, RV Point, Search and Rescue Hovercraft, Search Boats, Search Control, Search Controller, Search Dogs, Search Management Team, Search PPE, Search Pre-Plan, Team Leader, Underwater Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Seven
Briefings Out of necessity search exercises require two briefings. When it suits the exercise the first “exercise” briefing can be given to everyone attending all at once, with the “scenario” briefing being given to just the Search Management Team to allow them to brief the teams as they want. If the exercise is intended to [...]
December 1, 2009
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Tags: Briefing, Health and Safety, Search Control, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Management, Search Scenario, Search Training · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Four
or Terrain Analysis for Search Exercises Once you have selected your search area, looked at the practicalities of holding the search exercise and gone about gaining the required permissions, you need to undertake a terrain analysis of the whole search area. You will need to look at the possible search sectors, the hazards and the [...]
November 11, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Generic Risk Assessment for Search, Health and Safety, SAR First Aid, Search Control, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Hazards, Search Management, Search PPE, Search Sector, Search Training, Terrain Analysis · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
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
Search Terminology
Apologies for those hoping this next post would the next installment of the search exercise planners handbook – don’t panic though, it will be written this week. First though, I’ve been thinking about some search terminology for a while and I wanted to get this off my chest now, as it were. So often within [...]
October 19, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Lowland Search, Search Control, Search Management, Search Plan, Search Tactics, Search Techniques, Search Terminology · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
