Ahhhh … Is that the misper?
Well, it’s Mental Health in SAR Week this week on Re-Search, and following on from yesterday’s post on the causes of mental ill-effects in SAR we really ought to discuss making a find. For the most part we will be discussing finding a deceased misper and just what might happen afterwards. So imagine the scene, [...]
April 13, 2011
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Tags: Mental Health, Mental Ill-Effects, Misper, Search Dogs, Search Volunteers, Team Leader, Team Leader Course · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Qualified Search Technician – a few thoughts
ALSAR is currently looking at what should be included in their SAR Tech course. I have no idea what their thought process is, or where they will go but I thought I would start the re-launch of the Re-Search website with my thoughts on ALSAR initial training and beyond. My first thought is that ALSAR [...]
March 15, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Technician, Basic Search Techniques Course, missing person behaviour, Qualified Search Technician, Search Team Leader, Team Leader Course · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Six
How many clues can you find? I often hear of search exercise planners and Training Officers trying to add motivation to an exercise by ensuring that there are loads of clues dotted around for teams to find. There are two comments I have regarding this practice; One; In the lowland search environment it is extremely [...]
November 24, 2009
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Tags: Basic Search Techniques Course, BST, Clues, Lowland Search, Missing Person Search, Search Effort, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Management Team, SMT, Spaced Out Searchers, Team Leader Course, Tracker, Tracking, Training Officer · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Improving ALSAR Training
One of the most heated debates at the last ALSAR conference was about training; but a recent e-mail conversation reminded me of just why training is so controversial. Everyone wants to run their own training courses. I can understand this – seeing some courses and books I often sit there and think to myself why [...]
November 23, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, ALSAR Conference, ALSAR Instructors, ALSAR Training, BST Course, First Aid Course, Missing Person Behaviour Course, Navigation Course, Search Controllers Course, Search Managers Course, Search Training, Team Leader Course, Tracking Course, Water Safety Course · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
UKLSI Team Leader Training Course
*Equivalent to a Party Leader to MR personnel. I’m off to the new, updated and re-written UKLSI Team Leader Course this weekend. It is an exciting time really, having spent several months working on the new course it’s time to put it into practice. The Team Leader Course is the second course to get this [...]
October 6, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Technician, BST Course, Search Assessment, Search Training, Team Leader Course, UKLSI, UKLSI Instructor Training · Posted in: Search Courses, Search Thoughts, Search Training
