K9-Chaser
Verified Expert / Full-Time Professional K9SAR, SA
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It SHOULD be, but what happens when it isn't? What happens when no professionals are called in (and btw, your run of the mill LE, including field feds are not professional SAR either)? OR what happens when they are called in and then stop?
Yeah, in a perfect world, that's how it SHOULD work, I've discovered too many dead missing persons later, that it is far from perfect. As a veteran SAR responder, I firmly believe that pros should be out there doing it, it's what we train for, but guess what, when we don't get the call out, then I believe anyone who is willing to do it should get out there and try and find that missing person. Should they gather some knowledge first? Yes, and that's why I spent the last 9 months trying to create a resource guide for just that purpose. Do I hate to see people going out and destroying evidence? Absolutely, but in the absence of experience, well, anything is better than nothing.
As a veteran myself --- been there done that. However, that is when a competent and professional search team makes contact with LE and talks with them about the resource(s) that they offer and what they can do.
If it is true about the different LE organizations that are responding to this case, then hopefully there will be the experience there who will bring in the necessary resources. If not, then see paragraph one and hope that LE will agree to bring in help.
As a sidenote (to possible others but not sarx who knows this) --- destroying evidence can cause a wealth of harm, including impeding the return of the missing individual; ruining evidence that might be used to 'get' the abductor; ruining evidence that could otherwise be used by a specialty team to locate the missing person and / or be used to locate the abductor or perpetrator.
There are pros and cons on this issue for sure.