Getting the Search Controller Assignment Right (First Time!)
According to ALSAR you are not qualified to manage or control a search unless you have passed an assessment to say you are competent to do so! I think this is quite right. I do not care how good a course you sat through – unless you can prove you have taken some of it [...]
January 21, 2010
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: ALSAR, Assessment, Charlie Hedges, Common Pitfalls, Missing Person Search, SAR Pre-Plan, Search Controller, Search Controller Assignment, Search Controllers Course, Search Manager, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
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
Qualified Search Technician
I’ve had this discussion a few times with people and I thought it was about time I put pen to paper and put it out there for debate. I was disappointed a few years back when ALSAR officially dropped the word “basic” from the Basic Search Techniques course (now known officially as the Search Technicians [...]
December 9, 2009
· Robert Bradley · 5 Comments
Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Technician, Basic Search Techniques Course, BST, First Aid, Kayaks, Lowland Search, Mountain Bikes, Navigation, Qualified Search Technician, SAR TECH, Search Dogs, Search Management, Search Technician, Tracker, Tracking, UKLSI, Water Safety · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Search Pre-Planning Ideas
It has been a week since the UKLSI Search Controllers course. Delegates on that course only qualify after passing an assessment assignment. The assignment is made up of two parts; a “critical” review of two past searches (the search management decisions made etc.) and to produce a Search Pre-plan from their local area. Delegates should [...]
December 2, 2009
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Tags: PolSA, Pre-Planned Search, Search Controller Assignment, Search Controllers Course, Search Incidents, Search Management, Search Pre-Plan, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Thoughts, 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
