SAR Intelligence…and being smart about it…

Instructor: Chris Young

2 hours

Intelligence: the act of gathering information. Most SAR Managers will agree that there is a wealth of information out there about our missing subjects. From

interviewing persons having first-hand knowledge of the missing person, to the use of social networks like Facebook, "crowd sourcing", cell phone tracking and

other emerging technologies to mine information that will eventually be used to build a subject profile and lists of places to search. This presentation will discuss

the various sources of intelligence and learn how evaluated conclusions drawn from such information will develop scenarios that can be the deciding factor to

expand, contract or conclude the search effort. We will also emphasize that the gathering of facts in the SAR world really requires the work of a full time

coordinator on the general staff. It is time to elevate the power and work load from a footnote in the standard ICS chart, buried under the Plans Section, to the

Intelligence/Investigations Section it deserves.

BIO

Christopher (Chris) S. Young has been active in Search and Rescue since 1981, managed searches since 1986, is the past reserve Captain for the Contra Costa County

Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team and serves as chairman of the Bay Area Search and Rescue Council, Inc. (BASARC). Chris is a retired Instructor for the POST “Direction

and Control of the Search Function Course” for the State of California Office of Emergency Service for 25 years, is currently an Instructor Trainer for the “Managing the

Lost Person Incident” and “Urban Search Management” (developed by Chris) for the National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR), he is also an Instructor Trainer in

Emergency Medical Response and first aid for the American Red Cross since 1972, as well as specialized topics in Search Management, including Search Management in the

Urban Environment, and Investigation and Interviewing in SAR. Chris has also written, published and presented search management papers at the National Association for

Search and Rescue conferences, the Canadian National Search and Rescue Secretariat SARSCENE conferences, the William Syrotuck Symposiums on Search Theory and

Practice, the Canadian Coast Guard College, the Provincial Sûreté Du Québec Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, the New Zealand National SAR Conference, the Icelandic

International Search and Rescue Conference, Norwegian Frivillige Organisasjoners Redningsfaglige Forum (FORF) Seminar and several State Search and Rescue

conferences. He is also co-author of the book “Urban Search – Managing Missing Person Searches in the Urban Environment”, published 2007 by dbS Publications as

well as a contributing author on several other books for search and rescue. Additionally, Chris is a Level 1 law enforcement reserve with the Sheriff’s Dept and the City of

Danville and is an EMT 1 Instructor. Chris holds a Master of Science Degree in Construction Management and works as a Senior Project Manager for a large general

contractor based in San Francisco and is responsible for overall management of multimillion dollar ground up commercial, high rise, hospital, educational and hotel projects.