How long before you can report a missing person to the police?
Looking through the statistics of how many people are visiting the Re-Search website last week I found someone had come to the site having typed “how long before you can report a missing person to the police?” into Google. For those that do not work in missing person search this is probably not a strange question to [...]
November 20, 2009
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: 48 Hours, Child, Dementia, Despondent, High Risk Missing Person, Lowland Search and Rescue, Mental Health, Missing Person, Missing Person Risk Assessment, Missing Person Search, Out of Character, Police, Reporting Missing Persons, Suicidal, Vulnerable Missing Person · Posted in: 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
Busy weekend for ALSAR Units
More news slowly filtering in about other ALSAR callouts over last weekend. Wilsar had a callout on the 14th Nov. “to assist Wiltshire Police with search for vulnerable missing male in Swindon area. 21 members attended, assisted by members of ISAR. Male located safe and well.” Essex SAR also had a callout, on the 15th [...]
November 17, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Callout, Essex SAR, Search and Rescue, Search Volunteers, Vulnerable Missing Person, Wilsar · Posted in: Search News
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
