The Handbook for Managing Land Search Operations (Revised)

Cost £25.00 incl postage in UK (except Highlands and other remote places)

The latest and most comprehensive handbook for the SAR Manager or Overhead Team Members who have to do the job on scene. This latest Revision provides comprehensive updates on lost and missing person behaviour along with suggestions, hints, reminders, forms and charts for those responsible to run a search for a missing person.  The new section on POD deals with the latest research on the tie-in between vision, detection and programming searchers in the field.

This new 424 page handbook has photos, and loads of suggestions, helpful hints, reminders, forms and charts essential to running a search. It was written to be used at search base and requires basic knowledge of search theory as well as the search management process. Design features a spiral binding for easy field use. (Size: 5½X8½in.)

Handbook Contents:

• Checklists and Strategies for Preplanning.
• Establishing a Search Management Kit.
• The Six Step Search Management Process.
• Latest Missing Subject Behaviour Research.
• Proportional Consensus and Forms.
• Functional Management Responsibilities.
• New Missing Person Report Forms.
• Latest “Search Theory” Updates.
• Probability of Success Worksheets.
• POD Tables.
• “Operations Research” Guidelines for establishing POD Values for Volunteers.
• Searching in the Urban Environment.
• Comprehensive Search References.
• International Perspective and Review.
• Illustrated with Photos.

The Textbook for Managing Land Search Operations

Cost £32.00 incl postage in UK (except Highlands and other remote places)

The comprehensive Text for SAR Managers & Overhead.

Team members who have the responsibility to run searches. This is a completely rewritten, and reorganized textbook for the course “Managing Land Search Operations.” This book takes the place of the original document “Search is An Emergency” initially published by the Emergency Response Institute and later by Emergency Response International. The foundation material contained in this book has been the cornerstone for land search coordinators for over three decades in thirteen countries.  If you an instructor, Search Manager, or Overhead Team Member in local or regional search operations, this is a must have text.

Previous versions of this book entitled “Search is an Emergency,” have been the “definitive choice” of land search coordinators for over three decades. Recently rewritten and with a new title, this text has been used by the U.S. Park Service, SAR Coordinators throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as Police personnel and SAR Volunteers in the United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Kosova and Croatia. This new book was written to be used as the supportive text for the course “Management of Land Search Operations” conducted by Emergency Response International.

Textbook Contents:

• New Examples for Lessons Learned.
• Latest Missing Person Behaviour Data.
• Reflex Tasking & Functional ICS Management.
• Latest POD Research.
• Practical Search Planning Methodologies.
• Target Orientation, Vision & POD Data.
• Searching in the Urban Environment.
• Applying Missing Person Behaviour to Establishing the Search Area.
• Best Practices Review & Updates.
• New Illustrations and Photos.

AB Taylor's Tracking Book...
Fundamentals of Mantracking, the Step-by-Step Method

Cost £15.00 incl postage in UK (except Highlands and other remote places)

I could not put Ab's book down once I opened the first page. I really enjoyed reading this book written by a real down to earth guy. From the first line, I knew that Ab Taylor was living up to what I'd heard about him.
I didn't start the book to just read a story, or to get a song and dance from sombody who thought they knew what they were talking about. I knew that Taylor knew what he was talking about. Thanks to 'people who can, do' (mantracking) and 'Those who can't, try to' (write).

JT Signcutter and Search Manager

Urban Search: Managing Missing Person Searches
in the Urban Environment

Cost £25.00 incl postage in UK (except Highlands and other remote places)

You will learn how to:

• Understand your urban environment - residential, retail, business, industrial and/or recreational - and develop preplans accordingly
• Conduct thorough investigations and interviewing - including training search personnel in door-to-door canvassing
• develop an accurate profile of the missing person using the newest urban specific data
• Use the investigation information and scenario analysis to prevent wasted effort on a non-search
• Take advantage of the media
• Consider the missing person's use of public transportation
• Train dogs and ground teams to be effective in the urban environment by identifying problems and safety hazards they may encounter

• Manage and evaluate documentation and clue management

"This is a solid gold piece of reference material that should be in every search manager's primary library...a long awaited and much needed publication for the SAR community." --Robert 'Skip' Stoffel, Emergency Response International

"We highly recommend Urban Search. It combines technical and search management expertise into a readable compendium of valuable information in this little known specialty. Young and Wehbring bring a wealth of experience to the fast growing need for urban search capabilities across the United States." --Lois Clark McCoy, President, National Institute for Urban Search & Rescue

"A good tool to add to the search manager's tool box when facing the most difficult SAR there is: the job of searching for someone missing in the urban/suburban environment. This well put-together guide covers the practically endless possibilities in this complex environment." --Matt Scharper, California State SAR Coordinator, Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Law Enforcement Branch

"A comprehensive guide to the problem of urban searching. Everyone, no matter how experienced, will find something of value in it." --Dave Perkins, The Centre for Search Research, UK

"My prediction is that this book will become the world's leading text for urban search within a very short time because of its quality and the operational usefulness of its information." --Ross Gordon, Search and Rescue Institute New Zealand, NZ

Search Wheel

Cost £15.00 incl postage in UK (except Highlands and other remote places)