Managing Missing Persons Events

Instructor: Dr. Tracy "Trace" Sargent

Duration: 2 Days

Professional Development Hours: 16 PD hours

Cost: $400.00 (excluding tax)

Course Description

This comprehensive training program equips participants with essential skills for managing missing and lost person incidents while strengthening both tactical and administrative decision-making abilities in an engaging, practical learning setting. Attendees will acquire field-tested methodologies for effectively searching and locating missing or lost individuals.

Key Topics Covered:

• Search and Rescue (SAR) vulnerability assessment and statistical analysis
• SAR management strategies and available resources
• Pre-incident briefing and post-incident debriefing procedures
• Tactical response actions and SAR resource categorization
• Incident Command System application
• Investigation methodologies specific to missing persons cases
• Incident organization and prioritization techniques
• Search urgency determination criteria
• Lost person behavioral patterns and psychology
• Search perimeter establishment and expansion
• External factor management, including media relations and family coordination

Course Format: The first day combines classroom instruction with practical, hands-on activities using actual search management tools and techniques. The second day builds on these fundamentals and incorporates real-world case studies, requiring students to develop comprehensive plans for organizing and managing a missing person incident from initial response through resolution.