Mounted search and rescue

["L. S." <obsar1864@hotmail.com>]

Lois, you wrote . "Had the mounted searchers goneout, there was potential 
for destroying evidence." One thing our LTs and the LE's we work with tell 
us is that the MSAR can do a grid search for evidence and NOT destroy 
evidence or tracks... hoofprints being very different from foot prints.

Lauri



> From: Una Smith <una@lanl.gov>
> Reply-To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [MSAR] Re: tracking
> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:51:53 -0700
>
> Lois Guyon wrote:
> >We recognized the need for MSAR training when we had an abducted four
> >year old child. Untrained mounted units were about to go out when the
> >word was received that it was too late.  Had the mounted searchers gone
> >out, there was potential for destroying evidence.
>
> Lois,
>
> I think you mean that if untrained searchers had gone out, they could
> have destroyed evidence.  (Very likely.)  And many untrained searchers
> were on horseback.  Hence the need for MSAR training for at least some
> of those searchers so that in future searches they will be assets, not
> liabilities.  Good idea.  I take it they were "spontaneous volunteers"?
>
> About turning untrained spontaneous volunteers into trained resources,
> FEMA's Emergency Management Institute has an independent (ie, at home)
> training course that you can download free:  "Developing & Managing
> Volunteers", IS244:  see http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/priv/g244.htm
> If you want credit for the course, go in through their home page and
> register as a student then take the written test and mail it to them.
> There is no charge for any of it.
>
>         Una Smith
>         Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse, in New Mexico
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