Team Profile - High Access Rescue Team (Scotland)
It has been a while since we profiled a SAR team on here, so I asked John Kinsman, PR Officer of the High Access Rescue Team based in Scotland to tell us about his team...
The High Access Rescue Team is a charitable Company which provides an urban rescue service to Glasgow in Scotland and the surrounding areas. They specialise in rescues from high and inaccessible areas.
Sussex search volunteers get Dementia Awareness qualifications
Volunteers from the Sussex Search and Rescue Unit (SusSAR) have been congratulated by Sussex Police for completing a NCFE Level 2 qualification in Dementia Awareness to help with vulnerable missing person searches. A total of 23 volunteers were congratulated at the certificate presentation on Sunday 30 May. At the same time, certificates were awarded to 4 members of SusSAR who have recently qualified as Sussex Police First Aid Trainers.
Fundraising idea from the IoW
Fundraising is a difficult subject.
There are so many worthy causes and only a limited pot of money to go around.
So inevitably many SAR teams find themselves in competition with each other, as well as all those other charities.
A SARworld challenge for you all
OK, I admit it. I've been at the Tom Peters' books again.
For those that don't know me I have this habit of reading stuff; any stuff. And I have picked up this habit of reading Tom Peters' books.
Now I am not and never will be a businessman. I do not have the skills (and probably more importantly the personality) to make money in business. But I often find little nuggets of great stuff in all these different book subjects. And sometimes, like today, it feeds an idea...
Photo Competition Winner
SARworld is pleased to announce the winner of our photo competition.
There were a number of excellent entries covering a wide range of SAR disciplines however, Scott Lee's picture of his search dog, Lopez, pipped the others in the judges mind to win the competition and win Scott a copy of Gary Foo's Emergency Response & Search & Rescue.
Contributors Wanted
So, who noticed that SARworld took a week off?
This is the problem with having only one writer at the moment; if I'm not on top of things when I'm forced to take time off, so does SARworld.
And SARworld was not meant to be my own personal website, it is a community website - so now is the time for us to start recruiting contributors.
The Aim of a Search
The second part of this series on purposeful wandering concentrates on the aim of any search.
You would think that this would be very straightforward - to find the missing person as quickly as possible. Yet this is often not the case.
Purposeful Wandering - A starting point
This is the first of a couple of articles outlining the search technique of purposeful wandering.
I never really believed that I would have to write such an article but apparently there exists some misunderstandings and indeed distrust of the technique. Sometimes these exist within SAR teams themselves, and sometimes the SAR teams are dictated to be the local police or law enforcement.
In this first article I want to concentrate on a common misconception on how well we see during search.
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