Tracking for Search and Rescue
Last year, Ian “Max” Maxwell’s Tracking course at UKLSI, got me thinking about how to integrate Tracking into the management of a vulnerable missing person search. Whilst I had some initial thoughts these were based entirely in ignorance – I’d never done any tracking, nor watched it. So I set out to learn more about [...]
December 10, 2009
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Tags: Animal Tracks and Sign, Bang and Dahlstrom, Bob Carss, Complete Guide to Tracking, Jack Kearney, Mantracking, Science and Art of Tracking, Search and Rescue Tracking, Search and Rescue Volunteers, Sign, Sign Cutting, Tom Brown, Track Aware, Tracking, Tracking A Blueprint for Learning How, Tracking Team, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Books, Search Thoughts, Search Training
How to improve the POD of aerial search for vulnerable missing persons
Several years ago, in a blog long forgotten, I wrote a piece titled something like this one. It was inspired by the search for Fossett, and in particular, the use of volunteers to look through aerial photography and satellite imagery via the Internet. It started me thinking about aerial search – often seen and portrayed [...]
December 4, 2009
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Tags: Aerial Search, Misper Search, Missing Person Search, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Busy “events” weekend for SEBEV
All ALSAR Units are charities – they rely upon donations to run their valuable service to the police, searching for vulnerable missing persons. Some Units assist in the running of major events to collect donations. This might be providing first aid cover, or marshalling, or water safety cover, or just decent communications. SEBEV had two [...]
November 30, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Event Marshalling, Event Support, First Aid Cover, Fundraising, SEBEV, Vulnerable Missing Person Search, Water Safety · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts
Staffordshire SAR Team win £50,000 from People’s Millions Big Lottery Fund
You will probably remember me posting a plea from Bethan from SSART last week for help. Well the good news is that they won the £50,000 which will go towards a new control vehicle. All ALSAR teams are charities. They rely upon your help to run their valuable service, helping search for vulnerable missing persons. [...]
November 30, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Peoples Millions, SSART, Staffordshire Search and Rescue, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search News
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
