Archive for the ‘Search News’ Category
Will the police be downgrading missing person calls?
Following on from my posts on the effects of police cuts on missing person search and Geoff Newiss’s post on police cuts I felt the need to do more research. Sometimes I wish I didn’t bother… Here is a quote from a Home Office Report from last year that I had missed until now … [...]
May 9, 2011
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Tags: ACPO, Jan Berry, Missing Person, Police Cuts, Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing · Posted in: Search News, Search Research, Search Thoughts
BBC’s Missing Live starts again
You may have noticed the lack of a plug for the Missing People Blog post this week. This was deliberately left till today to remind you all of the start of the BBC’s Missing Live program on Monday – Louise Minchin wrote the Missing People’s blog post about this. I do have some concerns about [...]
May 6, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Louise Minchin, Missing Live, Missing People, Search Technician Training Course, The Missing Blog · Posted in: Search Links, Search News, Search Thoughts
Mountain and Cave Rescue Awareness Day
Moutain Rescue has a special place in my heart. Not because they can search properly, of course, but because of the restraint that they have. When I would, at the very least, be telling people exactly what I thought of them – if not actually slapping them around the head – Mountain Rescue volunteers are [...]
May 2, 2011
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Tags: Cave Rescue, Mountain Rescue, MR E&W · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts
ALSAR and the Search for Sian O’Callaghan
One thing that makes me proud of being associated with ALSAR is the fact that when they are involved in high profile searches like the on-going search for Sian O’Callaghan, no one knows about it! No one does what we do for recognition, but we all know that our funding by charitable donations relies upon [...]
March 23, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, High Profile Search, LSDogs, SARAID, Savernake Forest, Search Technician, Search Techniques, Sian O'Callaghan, Wilsar, Wiltshire Police · Posted in: Search Links, Search News, Search Thoughts
Surrey Search and Rescue Team
Just a very quick post about a meeting I went to last night; where I hope I witnessed the birth of a new search and rescue team in Surrey. Hosted by Surrey Police, with speakers from ALSAR, LSDogs and Sussex Search and Rescue, a core team of volunteers were gathered and will hopefully take on [...]
July 1, 2010
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Tags: ALSAR, Lowland Search Dogs, LSDogs, SARworld, Surrey Police, Surrey SAR, Surrey Search and rescue · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts
