ALSAR on Dartmoor
A number of ALSAR Units sent members down to Dartmoor Rescue Group’s annual training weekend. It is a tribute to the professional working relationship that ALSAR and MR E&W have that ALSAR was invited to send participants to this event [again!] Members from Hantsar, ISIS SAR, SEBEV, SSART, Sussar, and Wilsar all attended and from [...]
November 30, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Dartmoor Rescue Group, Hantsar, ISIS SAR, Mountain Rescue, MR E&W, Search Training, SEBEV, SSART, Sussar, Wilsar · Posted in: Search News, Search Training
Evidence Based Practice in Search
UKLSI Conference Presentation 2008 I was reminded of this presentation I did last year at the UKLSI Conference, held within Sussex by Sussar and Sussex Police, when hearing of someone reading Koester’s explanation of search theory in his book, Lost Person Behavior. I had not yet received my copy, unlike a certain Wilsar Search Manager, but was [...]
November 30, 2009
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Tags: Evidence Based Practice in Search, Koester, Lost Person Behavior, Sussar, Sussex Police, Sussex Search and Rescue, UKLSI, UKLSI Conference · Posted in: Search Presentations, Search Thoughts
Sussar, Midshires and SEBEV Callouts in the last three days
Continuing on from ALSAR’s busy weekend of callouts, three more vulnerable missing person searches have come to my attention. On the 15th, Sussar were “called out early [in the] morning to search for an elderly female with a dementia who had gone missing from her home in Peasmarsh.” [Read more here...] The 16th brought a callout for [...]
November 18, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Dementia, Midshires, SEBEV, Sussar, Thames Valley Police, Vulnerable Missing Person, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search News
Hampshire Search and Rescue Team Search for Missing Female in Netley
Hantsar had a callout over the weekend for a missing female in the Netley area. Braving the severe gales searchers from Hantsar, Dorsar, Sussar, Isis SAR and Lowland Search Dogs (Southern) attended. The callout followed a phone call to the police where a woman claimed she had been indecently assaulted  in a park, but did not [...]
November 16, 2009
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Tags: Dorsar, Dorset Search and Rescue, Hampshire Search and Rescue, Hantsar, ISIS SAR, ISIS Search and Rescue, Lowland Search, Lowland Search Dogs, Lowland Search Dogs (Southern), Lowland Search Teams, Missing Person Search, Sussar, Sussex Search and Rescue · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts
Post SAR Incident Evaluation
I had the pleasure yesterday of having a long chat with Johnnie Walker. For those that don’t know Johnnie he is Chair of what he considers to be the best ALSAR Unit in the country – Sussex Search and Rescue. He is also a fellow instructor at UKLSI, definately the best lowland search training organisation [...]
September 25, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Lowland Search, Post SAR Incident Evaluation, SAR De-briefing, Sussar, UKLSI, Wilsar · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
