HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE | SEARCH | TECH RESCUE | MEDICAL RESPONSE | MANAGEMENT | LOGISTICS | SAFETY | SECURITY | EDUCATION

We were established to provide relief and assistance of people in the UK or any part of the world who are the victims of war or natural disaster, trouble, or catastrophe in particular by the supply of medical aid or search & rescue services to such persons. 

We also provide training and education to support our objectives and build capacity and resilience. 

Our motto is: "That Others May Live."

In general there are two types of "SAR" (Search and Rescue).

1. Disaster Response

2. Missing / Lost Person

We do and train for both but our main focus is Disaster Response Search and Rescue such as the type that is required after an Earthquake causing "Structural Collapse" of buildings (known as USAR or Urban Search and Rescue)

Foo’s Five Missing and Lost Categories

We have created a table to add to the Police on shown earlier.  Taught on our courses to behaviourists and SAR Managers it has affectionately become known as Foo’s Missing and Lost Categories.  Keep in mind that in some instances, the subjects such as teenage runaways, may actually employ active counter measures to try to prevent you from actually finding them. 

Five Categories of Missing Persons

Table 3 The Five Categories of Missing or Lost by Gary Foo. 

Lost Person 

This is a person who is temporarily disorientated and would wish to be found, e.g., someone who has gone walking and does not know where they are (and how to return.)

Missing Person  who has voluntarily gone missing:

Missing Person 

This is someone who has control over their actions and who has decided upon a course of action, e.g., wishes to leave home or commit suicide;

Missing Person under the influence of a third party:

Abducted 

Someone who has gone missing against their will, e.g., abduction or murder victim.

Seized 

A Seized victim is someone taken by the acts of nature or physics such as someone on boat without sail in the sea or a pilot who ejected from an aircraft.  No emotion, behaviour nor deliberate act to predict but perhaps science.

Absent

An Absent person is one of those who we are reporting missing from our presence but who may not have the same concept of being lost due to their limited capacity in mental comprehension, and just gone ‘wandering off’ such as dementia sufferers. 

This reference information and book is available in several Police jurisdictions, libraries and online.