Cheshire Search and Rescue Team is a highly skilled, professional and dedicated group of volunteers available to assist Cheshire Police and other emergency services in the event of missing person searches or major incident support. Our team is entirely voluntary and we receive no payment for the services we provide, it actually costs the team to respond to incidents!

The team currently has 40 operational members, and 8 support members who live throughout the county and are all from a variety of backgrounds. Amongst the team are a number of Health Care Professionals, Office Workers, Shop Staff, University Graduates, retired people and many many more.

The services offered by the team are:

The team can be utilised for a variety of incidents such as missing persons, Searching for “Walk aways” after road or rail crashes, Aircraft incidents in the Mersey, Flooding, Incidents involving boats on the Dee – these are just a few types of incidents that the team are prepared to respond to, and all of this is free of charge