Mounted search and rescue

[Lois Guyon <laguyon2@yahoo.com>]

Una,

I am interested in the policy of delaying deployment in probably suicide 
cases as a protection for the searchers.  Do you know the rational?  Is it 
that there will be trauma if the person is deceased or is it that the 
searchers are not prepared to intervene with an unstable person?

Because of the number of suicides (potential) in remote areas, I would think 
it would be productive to have searchers prepared to search in case the 
suicide could be prevented. What do we know about suicides and probably 
suicides?  Where are they found?  How long after being reported missing?  How 
many are found alive?  

After asking these questions, it seems to me that we need a national data 
base of searches.  The MSAR community might benefit from a research arm.  I 
know a competent researcher in NM.  ---- 


Lois Guyon
LaSalle County, IL. Sheriff's MSAR