Defining A Missing Person
We’re adding a MISPER (Missing Person) category on casualties at the request of Dog Search teams. Let’s open a discussion on how all countries and services define casualties.
Here’s a starting list of categories from the UK.
- Despondent
- Dementia Alzheimer Type
- Runaway
- Lost
- Mental health
- Natural disaster
- Man-made disaster
- Injured
- Health problem
- Unspecified
- Abduction
- Criminal investigation
With this data we can start to generate Behavior Profiles
(Photo: Boston Emergency Service taken at the weekend. By Robin.)
July 9th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I have started a discussion about this on a forum that I administer which has had some good discussion on the subject - I did suggest that they could add it here too.
Have a look - http://forum.k9-sar.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=352
July 14th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Definitely try to match ones that are out there. You might consider the categories used in ISRID (International SAR Incident Database), available from dbs-SAR, which you linked above. (Email Bob Koester for the current definitions. Maybe he’ll even post that section from the forthcoming book.)
An early version of those categories was used for the NATSAR report. Fewer categories, less fully defined, but available here:
http://sarbayes.org/definitions.shtml
That includes a comparison to the standard UK categories used in their annual reports.
December 20th, 2008 at 3:25 am
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