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Pete Roberts has been a member of Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team (NNPMRT) since 1973 and has been their Team Leader on two occasions. In the 1980’s with Dave Perkins he co-authored the idea of Critical Separation and Purposeful Wandering and recent work has linked these concepts to Search Theory and search in the initial response phase of an incident.
In 1998 he co-founded The Centre for Search Research (TCSR), a UK based registered charity, and has co-authored a variety of SAR related papers and the UK Missing Person Behaviour Study which are all available at www.searchresearch.org.uk
He has extensive knowledge and experience of managing Search and Rescue (SAR) Incidents and is one of NNPMRT’s Duty Controllers. He has presented on the subject at SAR conferences throughout the UK, Ireland, US and Canada. TCSR teach courses on search management and field search skills to volunteer SAR groups and to the Police and has recently been extensively involved in training Irish Civil Defence and Irish Coast Guard personnel in all aspects of search for a missing person.
Background - Statistics from past incidents show that in the UK around 95% of searches for missing persons are concluded within the first 12 hours. This time period, first identified and referred to by The Centre for Search Research (TCSR) in 2000, is referred to as the Initial Response Phase. How it is managed can have an important bearing on the outcome of the entire incident. Importantly, every incident has an Initial Response phase.
Rationale - a strategic, tactical and operational response to a SAR incident is described and the fundamental importance of the construction and analysis of scenarios in solving the missing person ‘problem’ is explored.
Process - recommended guidelines to follow are detailed and examined to provide structure and form to the incident and ‘problem’ of the missing person. Traditional search management concepts are incorporated within this structure.
A working example, to show how it works in Northumberland, UK and beyond will be illustrated.