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I’m on holiday! You could be forgiven for not knowing as I have managed to write something for yesterday and today before I went off, but on holiday from writing I am. It did get me thinking though of where to go from here? Last week’s Mental Health for SAR week seemed to go well, as [...]

April 19, 2011 · Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: Mental Health for SAR, SAR Websites, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Training, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Links, Search Presentations, Search Research, Search Thoughts, Search Training

Search Exercise Planners Handbook

This series of posts outlines some of my thoughts on how to improve the way ALSAR Units, and other SAR teams searching for vulnerable missing persons, run missing person search exercises. Introduction and Search Exercise Objectives Selecting an Area for the Search Exercise Practical Aspects of Running a Search Exercise Terrain Analysis for Search Exercises [...]

December 3, 2009 · Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: Briefing, Debriefing, Running a Search Exercise, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Objectives, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Exercise Scenarios, Terrain Analysis for Search Exercises · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training

Search exercise planners handbook – Part Eight

SAR Debriefing When planning any search exercise time needs to be allowed for the debriefing. It is one, if not the, most important parts of the exercise. Everything that anyone learns from the exercise can be lost if not recalled at this stage by them, and feedback to the whole group for them to learn [...]

December 3, 2009 · Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: Debriefing, SAR Debriefing, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook · 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 · Robert Bradley · No Comments
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

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This month's feature is the Missing Rights Campaign being run by Missing People.

If your house is burgled you are automatically offered emotional, practical and legal support. If your child goes missing you may get nothing.

Missing People. are calling on the Government to give families of missing people the same basic rights as victims of crime.

Over 250,000 people go missing in the UK every year. While most of us will have read or heard about a disappearance, little is understood about the emotional, legal and financial burdens it can bring to those closest to the missing person. Families left behind face their homes being seized, jobs being lost, divorce, social stigma and suicidal thoughts.

Here are the detailed aims and objectives of the Missing Rights Campaign. Without your support, though, they will not be able to bring about change for families of missing people.

Aim #1:
Families of missing people should know everything possible is being done to find their missing loved one.

Objectives:
•Every region to have a local missing persons coordinator who will hold local services to account
•Every family to have a named single point of contact in the police force dealing with their missing loved one
•All unidentified bodies to be cross matched with missing person reports

Aim #2:
Families affected by a disappearance should have access to support.

Objectives:
•Every family of a missing person to be signposted to Missing People’s free emotional, practical and legal support services by the police
•A network of specially trained counsellors to be developed to support the unique needs of families of missing people

Aim #3:
Families left behind should be spared the pain of unnecessary financial and legal bureaucracy.

Objectives:
•All banks to introduce standard mortgage arrangements for families of missing people
•All insurance companies to enable families to freeze or take over their missing relative’s policy payments.
•Presumption of Death Act to be introduced in England of Wales

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