DaRSI™ - Point of Find
Finding them is only the beginning.
DaRSI™ PoF - Point of Find Scenario & Decision Training System - Find them. Assess them. Help them.
Search & Rescue training often concentrates on everything required to locate a missing person: planning, search techniques, navigation, communications, detection and recognition.
But what happens at the Point of Find?
The missing person may be perfectly well. They may be frightened, confused, injured, hypothermic, medically unwell, experiencing a behavioural crisis, in cardiac arrest, or suspected deceased.
The search team has to recognise what they have found, assess the situation, make decisions, communicate, request appropriate resources and determine what happens next.
DaRSI™ PoF - Point of Find has been developed to bring that next phase of the search into the exercise.
Once the DaRSI™ is located, the associated PoF scenario identifies the condition in which that missing person has been found.
Now your search exercise doesn't have to finish with: "MisPer located.”
Instead, the find creates the next operational phase:
FIND → ASSESS → RECOGNISE → ACT → ESCALATE → EXTRACT / HANDOVER
That means a single DaRSI™ can represent dozens of different Point of Find outcomes without changing the physical training aid.
How DaRSI™ PoF works
Select
Select
Select
Choose the required Point of Find scenario from the catalogue.
Deploy
Select
Select
Pair the scenario with a DaRSI™, live role player, mannequin or other casualty representation.
Find
Select
Assess
The search team locates the missing person as part of the exercise.
Assess
Respond
Assess
The searcher receives the initial PoF presentation and conducts their assessment.
Respond
Respond
Respond
Directing Staff use the corresponding Condition Card to provide casualty responses, observations and scenario progression.
Manage
Respond
Respond
The team must determine what happens next; treatment within scope, communications, additional resources, extraction, safeguarding, scene management or handover.