Training

 

We train every Tuesday evening and also attend both day and weekend courses through the year. Our training is varied and regular but most importantly it is conducted by qualified professionals including senior Search and Rescue and Mountain Rescue instructors, Cheshire Police, Cheshire Fire and Rescue, healthcare professionals and other agencies and companies.

 

All new members must attend regular training sessions after which they will be required to pass a Search Technician course and Basic Trauma and Casualty Care course before being added to the call out register. The ongoing syllabus for all members includes the following:

 

• Basic Trauma and Casualty Care
• Radio communications
• Rope rescue techniques
• Equipment familiarisation and training
• Rope safety
• Search methods and search management
• Missing person behaviour
• Incident control
• Major incident procedures
• Navigation
• Leadership skills
• Working with statutory emergency services
• Team vehicle driving skills
• Working near water

Experienced team members will also attend advanced and specialist training areas including:

• Party leader
• Search controller
• Search manager
• Search dog handler
• Advanced rope training
• Crime scene preservation
• Incident Safety Assessment