Archive for the ‘Search Thoughts’ Category
Bias and SAR
Following on from my post last Thursday on “Who is Leading your SAR team?” I got into a discussion with a reader who kindly informed me that I had missed out something crucial from the debate. They reminded me of how the Chair of a team will tend to recruit committee members who have the [...]
May 3, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Bias, Search Training · Posted in: 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
Who’s leading your SAR team?
Agatha Christie may have had it right with her Miss Marple character. She would, as I’m sure you all know, relate whatever murder she was working on at the time to some obscure little event in St Mary Mead or somewhere – the little village she lived in anway. So I’m going to relate a [...]
April 28, 2011
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Tags: SAR Charity, SAR Team Leadership, Team Committees · Posted in: Search Thoughts
The Reconnect Network
I make no apologies for posting yet another link to the Missing People blog, but they are doing some amazing work that fully complements missing person search and rescue work and I will keep saying it until it happens – we need to be working closer with each other! This week’s article is on the [...]
April 27, 2011
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Tags: Missing People, Reconnect Network · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts
Website for PolSAs?
I’ve thought for a long time that PolSAs need a lot more support and training in missing person search. If they are lucky they get sent on a short course on misper search; some of these courses are very good, some not so. Then, having had a couple of days instruction, they are expected to totally [...]
April 27, 2011
· Robert Bradley · 2 Comments
Tags: Misper, Missing Person Search, Police Search, PolSA · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
