ALSAR and the Search for Sian O’Callaghan
One thing that makes me proud of being associated with ALSAR is the fact that when they are involved in high profile searches like the on-going search for Sian O’Callaghan, no one knows about it! No one does what we do for recognition, but we all know that our funding by charitable donations relies upon [...]
March 23, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, High Profile Search, LSDogs, SARAID, Savernake Forest, Search Technician, Search Techniques, Sian O'Callaghan, Wilsar, Wiltshire Police · Posted in: Search Links, Search News, Search Thoughts
A Defence of Purposeful Wandering
Johnnie Walker a long while back made a throwaway comment when he was commenting on his own Search Analogy; I know of Police Services who ban purposeful wandering by their search volunteers. Yes, you read that right. Not insist on it. Ban it! [Read it here if you don't believe he wrote it...] I have [...]
January 13, 2010
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Tags: ALSAR, Johnnie Walker, POD, Police, PolSA, Probability of Detection, Purposeful Wandering, Search Controllers Course, Search Techniques, Search Theory, Search Volunteers, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Thoughts
SEBEV Basic Search Techniques Course – Powerpoint Slides
Ever wonder where lowland search started in the UK? The first Basic Search Techniques course was written by Kris Manning, and a couple of others whose names I can’t remember whilst writing this but Kris will, I’m sure, comment on. Kris gave me permission years back for the slides  to be put on the old [...]
November 16, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Technician, Basic Search Techniques Course, BST Course, Kris Manning, Search Techniques, Search Training, SEBEV, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Courses, Search Links, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Training in Visual Search for SAR
I recently started to read Mark Gleason’s paper – THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN REMAINS IN THE SEARCH AND RESCUE ENVIRONMENT. I’d downloaded it a while back and skimmed it, but hadn’t sat and thought about it much. I got as far as the first page before I got very distracted by something he wrote about “search [...]
November 4, 2009
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Tags: Global-focal Model, Lowland Search, SAR, Search Images, Search Techniques, Search Training, Sweep Width, Tracking, Visual Search · Posted in: Search Research, 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
