Missing Persons Search Technician
This course equips Search Volunteer
Professionals with essential skills in missing
persons behaviour, tactics, and techniques.
Delivered by Police-approved instructors, it
ensures training meets National Policing
Search Standards and prepares attendees
to operate confidently in Search & Rescue.
Next Available Course: Available on request
Duration: 5 Days
Validation: 3 Years
Price per course (max 12): £7800 +VAT
Scheme of Works
The course has been written in line with the
Police Concept of Operations, delivered and
designed for the Volunteer Professional
Search & Emergency Services communities.
The course is currently awaiting imminent
Skills for Justice accreditation.
This course is broken down into individual
lesson categories, with both theory and
practical assessments. The individual
lessons are:
- Water Awareness & Rescue Techniques
- Search Techniques
- Missing Person Behaviour
- Map Reading & Navigation
- Radio & Communication Skills
- Point of Find – actions on
- Crime Scene Awareness
- First Aid & Safeguarding
- Road Safety
- Health & Safety
Course Syllabus
Practical Assessments:
- Missing Person Behaviour – Applying GRAMPIAN, iFind, Koester and other profiling datasets, including use of ‘SCENARIO’ as a framework to build effective search strategies.
- Search Techniques – Practical use of critical spacing, assurance levels, and 360° search awareness, recognising the difference between simply ‘looking’ and actively ‘searching’.
- Scenario Exercise – A full, scenario based assessment demonstrating understanding of search and rescue techniques, safeguarding, and safe operational practice during a missing person deployment.
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