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
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Tags: ALSAR, ALSAR Presentation, Counter Terrorist Search, Evidence Search, Missing Person Search, PolSA, Search Theory, SIO, Spaced Out Searchers, Survivability · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Length of ALSAR Searches for Vulnerable Missing Persons
Thinking about survivability figures when I did my Missing Person Training Presentation for ISIS SAR this week, and after my brief post questioning whether the police “suspend” vulnerable missing person search too quickly, I thought I would take a brief look at the figures I have available to me and look for any evidence. In theory every ALSAR [...]
October 29, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Misper Stats, Search Incidents, Survivability, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
ISIS SAR Missing Person Behaviour Training Presentation
ISIS SAR is the new ALSAR Unit covering Oxfordshire; I will write one day about the whole history of Oxfordshire Search & Rescue and ALSAR but suffice to say I’m pleased to now have an ALSAR Unit working in Oxfordshire (I just hope that Thames Valley Police will jump onboard soon too – but that’s [...]
October 28, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, ALSAR Presentation, ISIS SAR, Misper Stats, Oxfordshire Search and Rescue, Probability Density, Search Training, Survivability, Thames Valley Police, Track Offset Data, Visualising Missing Person Behaviour Statistics · Posted in: Search Presentations, 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
