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Christopher S. Young has been active in Search and Rescue since 1981, managed searches since 1986, is the past reserve Captain for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s SAR Team and serves as chairman of the Bay Area Search and Rescue Council, Inc. Chris is an Instructor Trainer for the “Managing the Lost Person Incident” and “Urban Search Management” (developed by Chris) for the National Association for Search and Rescue as well as specialized topics in Search Management, and Intelligence/Investigation/Interviewing in SAR. Chris has also written, published and presented search management papers at conferences all over the United States, and Internationally as well at William Syrotuck Symposiums on Search Theory and Practice. He is co-author of the book “Urban Search – Managing Missing Person Searches in the Urban Environment” and author of the new book “Intelligent Search – Managing the Intelligence Process in the Search for Missing Persons”
23 Oct 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
The Search Intelligence Process of gathering information regarding the missing subject occurs during every search incident. We recognize intelligence information is used to build a subject profile; gather lists of people with firsthand knowledge of the missing subject that we want to talk to; and task investigators to research and mine information from various sources, like social media or cell phone data, to determine where to look and what to look for. However, during the initial stage of an active search for a missing person, intelligence gathering can be very daunting, chaotic, haphazard or worse not initiated thus delaying the compiling of crucial information that could shorten the time it takes to locate the subject. In any other aspect of the search operation like ground searching or technical rope rescue we preplan, train and develop processes to be more efficient. This presentation is a synopsis of the book “Intelligent Search – Managing the Intelligence Process in the Search for Missing Persons” authored by Christopher Young and will and will review: