'Incident Commander
Pro - Version 8'
- Cold
Case Response -
Helping Police Solve ‘Cold-Case’
Crimes
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Mission Briefing |
Twice in the last few months
police SAR teams have helped resolve old missing-person cases using 'Incident Commander Pro'.
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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 ‘Incident Commander Pro’ 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 grid-search 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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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 Pro’ 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 grid-search teams were all quickly deployed to the hillside. ‘Incident Commander Pro'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 police SAR teams, using ‘Incident Commander Pro’, have helped to resolve ‘Cold Squad’ cases.
For more information please contact:
SAR
Technology Inc.
Phone:
(604) 921-2488 
Fax
(604) 921-2484 
sartechnology@telus.net
SAR Technology
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