Search exercise planners handbook – Part Six
How many clues can you find? I often hear of search exercise planners and Training Officers trying to add motivation to an exercise by ensuring that there are loads of clues dotted around for teams to find. There are two comments I have regarding this practice; One; In the lowland search environment it is extremely [...]
November 24, 2009
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Tags: Basic Search Techniques Course, BST, Clues, Lowland Search, Missing Person Search, Search Effort, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Management Team, SMT, Spaced Out Searchers, Team Leader Course, Tracker, Tracking, Training Officer · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Five
Picking your search exercise’s SCENARIO One of the other things that often let’s down ALSAR search exercises is their scenarios. This is despite the fact that many search exercise planners and training officers spend a large amount of time coming up with these fantastic scenarios [or more accurately because they do!] Classic examples of this [...]
November 18, 2009
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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 exercise planners handbook – Part Two
Too often search exercises are run in the same old places. The reasons for this are clear – often close by, easy to park etc. etc. However, by doing this the exercise loses so much. TLs don’t need to navigate, SCs don’t need to think about RVs, Units don’t need to think about annoying residents [...]
October 23, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, High Risk Misper, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Incidents, Search Plan, Search Pre-Plan, Search Training, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
