SAR Technology: 'Incident Commander
Pro' Software
- International
Edition
‘Incident Commander’
software Helps Police Solve Old ‘Cold Squad’ Cases
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Mission Briefing |
Twice in the last few months
local SAR teams have helped the police resolve old missing-person cases with the assistance of
the 'Incident Commander' software.
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Networked Command Vehicles |
The
first case involved the disappearance of a despondent individual who had been
missing for almost 8 months. The local SAR teams held a joint exercise in the
area using the ‘Incident Commander’ software to plan the search. The
software’s Gridsearch Calculator was used to determine the optimum manpower,
searcher-spacing and time required to gridsearch a dense forest close to an
urban development, not far from the subject’s Point Last Seen.
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number of gridsearch teams were deployed to the forest and shortly afterwards
discovered the individual’s remains. While this was, of course, a tragic
incident, it did resolve the subject’s disappearance, and, after many months
of uncertainty, permitted the family to grieve and bring some closure to the
incident.
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Wireless Network: Personnel Check-In using the 'Search Manager' software |
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The
second case, just four months later, involved a search in a rural area for a
person who had been missing for approximately twenty years. Local SAR teams
equipped two command vehicles with a combined wired/wireless network and planned
the search using the ‘Incident Commander’ software. The Gridsearch Calculator
was again used to determine the optimum manpower requirements for a series of
search areas along a densely wooded hillside.
Despite gusting winds and heavy rain the gridsearch teams were all quickly deployed to the hillnside. ‘Incident Commander's’ Communications Log was used to record all radio messages and within a few hours one team called in that they had found human remains. At this stage the local police, who were at the command vehicles monitoring the search, went to the site and sealed off the area.
In
these two searches local SAR teams, using the planning functions of the
‘Incident Commander’ software, have provided significant assistance to the
police in helping to resolve old ‘Cold Squad’ missing person cases.
SAR Technology Inc.
5268 Sprucefeild Road, West Vancouver
B.C., Canada V7W 2X6
Phone:
(604) 590-7419 / (604) 921-2488 
Fax (604) 921-2484
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