OUR SEARCH CONTROLLERS NEED A HELPING HAND

Are you an organised person? Able to do two things at once?... Looking to help a charity, do something completely different and make a difference to your community? If so, NORLSAR needs you!!

NORLSAR are looking for volunteers to help their Search Controllers in the incident control centre when their teams assist local Police in looking for missing people.

If you do not want to do physical searching, but feel you have the ability to listen to communication over the radio and write down what you have heard, assist with general paperwork and passing on of messages, then contact our NORLSAR secretary on norlsarsecretary@hotmail.com to find out more. This is a valuable role to ensure the efficient running of our teams whilst out searching.

Training would be provided and your commitment to a minimum training programme throughout the year to maintain skills is required.

Added 09/03/10

If you'd like to join NORLSAR, then please contact us by email.

Just by asking for some details you are not committing and we are fully aware that searching for missing people is not suitable for everyone. If you are interested then you should try and make it to one of our training sessions the dates and locations can be found on the diary dates page of this website its a good idea to let us know if your are coming so that we can keep you informed of any changes in our training programme. For obvious reasons training can be changed without notice.

Should you choose to become a member you would need to complete our initial training course. Before this is offered to you we would ask that you attend 5 training sessions and complete a CRB check you will also be required to supply two references.

To remain on the active callout list you must complete our minimum training programme every year, details of this can be seen by visiting our training page.

As a trained member you may be called on to take part in searches for a missing person overnight or during working hours - so you'll always need your gear packed and ready to go at a moment's notice. We would urge you to speak with your family and employer about this, we are realistic about our expectations if you cannot be called on during working hours or have night time commitments please make us aware of these and we will not call you during these periods.

In return we would ask you to be realistic about your availability, talk to us we understand that not everyone can be on call all of the time due to work and family commitments.

Joining our organization comes with big benefits - you'll be helping people, making new friends, learning new skills and we do try to have a lot of fun.