Breeze Group

Let’s look at a very specialised area of search dogs, Victim Recovery, sometimes called human remains detection dogs, Cadaver dogs or ‘body dogs’. Several Police forces have in house Human Remains Detection Dogs (HRD Dogs) alongside several Fire Services. In the voluntary Search & Rescue / Recovery sector there’s only a very small number of organisation’s focusing only on this discipline. SEARCH + DETECTION DOGS are one of these few agencies.  They are a nationwide organisation, not for...

Founded in 1942, Casualties Union is a UK-based charity dedicated to improving emergency preparedness. We do this by providing volunteers to play the roles of casualties, survivors, and bystanders in simulated emergency situations. The addition of live actors into these training scenarios adds a human factor, and means that emergency responders and medical professionals are better prepared to deal with casualties in real-life crises. ​ Our Volunteers The core of our charity is the highly...

This October, when the rivers were full of Swaledale rain, we held one of our water CPD events.  Swaledale MRT hosted & North of Tyne & Cleveland MRTs brought extra water techs (MOD 3). ​ This gave us a good 25 in water technicians plus team leaders. We’ve recently started looking at a more joined-up approach to our water (and other areas) training. Historically, we used to train each discipline independently, water, rope, medical search etc.  However, we’ve concluded that we need to train...