Archive for the ‘Search Research’ 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
What next for the Re-Search website?
I’m on holiday! You could be forgiven for not knowing as I have managed to write something for yesterday and today before I went off, but on holiday from writing I am. It did get me thinking though of where to go from here? Last week’s Mental Health for SAR week seemed to go well, as [...]
April 19, 2011
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Tags: Mental Health for SAR, SAR Websites, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Training, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Links, Search Presentations, Search Research, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Time to do more me SAR stuff … ?!
Last night I resigned from UKLSI. This might have come as a shock to a few people, to a few others it was a long time in coming. As I explained in my resignation letter; …Â I am hoping to start a Phd later this year. I should have spent the last couple of months writing [...]
April 8, 2011
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Tags: Phd, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
Psychic Search and Rescue
Yet again I return to the use of Psychics for looking for missing persons. As many of you know, in the past I have been very dismissive of their use. It is fair to say that I have used such words as Charlatans and Frauds freely when discussing the way I used to see them [...]
April 1, 2011
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Tags: Psychic, Psychic Search and Rescue, Psychics and Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
A Unifying Theory of Search
What a grand sounding title for a post? I couldn’t think of another title that summed up what I was hoping to achieve with the post. I’d like to try to explain how all search is linked. Each type of search contains the same elements, but depending on their quantity / use depends on how [...]
March 24, 2011
· Robert Bradley · 3 Comments
Tags: ALSAR, Lawrence Stone, Police Search, Search Theory, Theory of Optimal Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
