Next Year on the Re-Search Website
2010 looks as if it is shaping up to be an extremely busy year for SAR work for me. The SAR Bookshop will be opening in January with a few titles, and I will be building the number of titles in stock as time goes by. [I think I'm supposed to sell some as well, [...]
December 17, 2009
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: Aerial Search, Cleared, Dementia, Despondent, Health and Safety, missing person behaviour, Missing Persons Investigation, Post Traumatic Stress, Purposeful Wandering, SAR Bookshop, SAR Mapping, SAR World, Search Controller Assignment, Search Research, Search Theory, Suicide, The SAR Bookshop, Water Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Search Management Training Courses
I’m often asked about the variety of Search Management and Search Controller courses that are available; what are they like? what is the difference? etc. Before I include a couple of links to some Search Management/Controller courses I have found on the Internet I wanted to explain how I see the difference in the wordings. [...]
November 16, 2009
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Tags: Emergency Response UK, ERI, Green Man, International Rescue Training Centre Wales, Managing the Lost Person Search, Missing Person Management Course, Search Controller, Search Controllers Course, Search Management, Search Management Course, Search Theory, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Courses, Search Links, Search Thoughts, Search Training
The Use of Mountain Bikes for Search and Rescue
On Friday I posted a news item on the First National Search and Rescue Mountain Bike Instructor Scheme being run by Black Badge. This sparked a debate; on whether it actually was the first but also on the use of mountain bikes for lowland search and rescue. A number of ALSAR Units now run mountain bike [...]
November 15, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Bike Search Team, Charnes-Cooper Algorithm, Lowland Search and Rescue, Mountain Bikes, Mounted SAR, National Search and Rescue Mountain Bike Instructor Scheme, POA, POD, POS, Probabililty of Success, Probability of Area, Probability of Detection, Probable Success Rate, PSR, Robert Koester, Route and Path Search, Search Effort, Search Theory, Sweep Width, Sweep Width Experiments, Track Length, Wilsar · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
Emergency Response & Search & Rescue by Gary Foo
This new book seems to have aroused a lot of interest, certainly here in the UK, but also abroad too. It seemed appropriate then to write a quick review of the book. The book covers a vast amount of ground in its 300 plus pages. It starts with a round-up of the different SAR disciplines, [...]
November 13, 2009
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Tags: Briefing, Callout, De-briefing, Emergency Response, Emergency Response & Search & Rescue, Gary Foo, International SAR, Lost Person Behavior, Lost Person Behaviour, Mountain Bikes, Mounted SAR, Navigation, SAR, SAR Command, SAR Medicine, SAR Operations, SAR Vehicles, Search Dogs, Search Patterns, Search Theory, Team Roles · Posted in: Search Books, Search Thoughts
Are PolSAs the right resource for managing missing persons search?
A while back I wrote a briefing paper, Spaced Out Searchers, that formed the basis for the ALSAR Conference presentation, Advances in Lowland Search Techniques. In it I discussed how ALSAR Units search techniques had changed because they were working with PolSAs who, because of the experience of search tended to want areas “cleared”. To [...]
November 12, 2009
· Robert Bradley · 4 Comments
Tags: ALSAR, ALSAR Presentation, Counter Terrorist Search, Evidence Search, Missing Person Search, PolSA, Search Theory, SIO, Spaced Out Searchers, Survivability · Posted in: Search Thoughts
