UK Missing Person Behaviour Report 2011
Everyone that knows me well, knows how much importance I place on good evidence for everything we do. To get this evidence takes time, effort, hard work and research! I’m so very pleased then that Dave Perkins, Pete Roberts, and Ged Feeney have published their latest report into the UK’s misper stats. The report can [...]
March 16, 2011
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Tags: Centre for Search Research, Dave Perkins, Ged Feeney, Misper Stats, missing person behaviour, Pete Roberts, Search Management, Search Planning · Posted in: Search Links, Search Research, Search Thoughts
The POD of a Search Dog
I wrote a short piece last week entitled “The POD of a Search Dog is 100%” and promised to give my thoughts on the subject at a later date. It is interesting to note that the two commenters – Daryl Toogood and Johnnie Walker – highlighted the two main issues I wanted to cover with [...]
January 28, 2010
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Tags: Daryl Toogood, Johnnie Walker, POD, Probability of Detection, Search Dog, Search Dog Handler, Search Management, Search Planning, Search Sector · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Elements of the Optimal Search Problem
Lawrence Stone defined the elements of the optimal search problem in his 1986 book, Theory of Optimal Search. This was paraphrased extremely well by Cooper, Frost and Robe in their 2003 report – Compatibility of Land SAR Procedures with Search Theory as quoted below; A probability density distribution on search object location and state (so [...]
January 19, 2010
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Tags: Compatibility of Land SAR Procedures with Search Theory, Consensus, D Cooper, J Frost, Lawrence Stone, Missing Person Behaviour Statistics, Optimisation, POA, POC, POD, POS, Probability Density, Probability Density Distribution, Probability of Area, Probability of Detection, Probability of Success, R Quincy Robe, Search Effort, Search Planning, Search Resource, Search Theory, Theory of Optimal Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Do the police suspend vulnerable missing persons searches too quickly?
I awoke this morning with the need to write another quick post here – on the suspension of searching. I obviously discussed it slightly yesterday with the idea that we should search areas where outstanding high risk mispers could be; however, my recent revision of missing person behaviour statistics has obviously made me think more [...]
October 24, 2009
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Tags: ACPO, ALSAR, Guidance on the Management, High Risk Misper, Koester, Lost Person Behavior, Missing Person Behaviour Statistics, Recording and Investigation of Missing Persons, Search Planning, Survivability, Suspending a Search, Vulnerable Missing Person · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
