Archive for the ‘Search Training’ Category
SARWorld – Another Phoenix rising from the ashes?
A quick plug today for a new article on the SARWorld website. David Housley from Midshires Search and Rescue has written a piece on outdoor skills and search and rescue, exploring the use of tracking and “natural navigation” within lowland search teams. Well worth a read, and feel free to join in the debate and [...]
May 17, 2011
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: ALSAR, Midshires, Natural Navigation, SAR Training, SARworld, Tracking, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Detection vs Recognition – The Story
I wanted to share with you a story I was told when I first started in Lowland SAR (quite a while back now…) – Apologies to all those who have heard it before. An elderly gentleman went missing from his cottage one winter’s day. On discovering their father missing the family reported his disappearance to [...]
May 5, 2011
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Tags: Blue Boulder Story, Detection, Recognition · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
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
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
Tracking in Lowland Search and Rescue
I said that lots of things came up during the latest UKLSI Lowland Search and Rescue Courses that I went to this weekend and tracking is another one. Anyone, who has in the past read my blog, will know I have a great admiration for trackers and tracking as a tool for search. So, it [...]
March 23, 2011
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Tags: Ian 'Max' Maxwell, Mantracking, Search and Rescue Tracking, ShadowHawk Tracking and Survival School, Tracking, Tracking Skills Course, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Courses, Search Links, Search Thoughts, Search Training
