2007 Callouts
December
8th December 2007 - Missing 77yo Female found safe and well.
Matt & Charlie, supported by Rob are joined by Meeko and Ian and from Hampshire in assisting Dorset Police locate a missing female in the Ferndown area of Dorset. The 77 year old female took her dog for a walk at around 1600 hours on the Saturday and did not return home. Charlie and Meeko worked together, clearing off large sections of the heathland around Ferndown with DorSAR members searching the adjoining roads and areas. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Charlie located the female in heavy undergrowth just off of a track (see map). The lady was found with her dog, cold and slightly injured but was otherwise in high spirits.
Search area 2 (in red) showing location of the missing person
November
22 - 23 November 2007 - Matt & Charlie assisted Dorset Police in the search for a missing 19 year old despondent from the Bridport Area. Having located his car at Durley Chine, Bournemouth an extensive search was conducted of the cliff tops, shoreline and chines. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of Dorset Search Dogs, Police, Coastguard and DorSAR the male remains missing. The BBC story refers.
15 November 2007 Callout to support Dorset Police in there efforts to find an elderly despondent male missing from Broadstone. Matt & Charlie responded with Duncan assisting prepared to search Delph Woods, Broadstone. A very brief search was conducted of the males garden before he was located by Police, unfortunately deceased.
September
14 September 2007 Callout supporting Dorset Police searching for a 43 year old missing man. Matt and Charlie searched large areas of Canford Heath, Poole until the early hours of the morning. The man was found alive and well.
07 September 2007 Callout supporting Hampshire Police and many other agnecies in there extensive land search for a missing despondent 15yr girl missing from New Forest. Matt and Charlie responded from Dorset with Duncan supporting. This was a very large search with the dogs working for several hours at a time. Despite the efforts, the girl was not found by the searchers. She was found several days later by members of the public, 9 miles outside of the search area and her point last seen. The BBC story refers.
July
22 July 2007 Callout to support Dorset Police and DorSAR with the search of CHESIL BEACH shore line for a missing Fisherman. Matt & Charlie supported by Duncan responded from Dorset Search Dogs with Cynthia/Carraigh , Paul/Sam, Vanessa/Zoe Daz, Lyn, and Tom from our Hampshire based team assisting.
03 July 2007 - Call out to assist Hampshire Police with HantSAR and LS Dogs Southern in the search for an abandoned one month old baby. Matt and Charlie responded with Duncan supported but were stood down on route. The incident was a malicious report to the police which led to the arrest of a female.
June
16 June 2007 - Call out to assist Wiltshire Constabulary and WiltSAR in the search for a missing middle aged man who had gone missing from his home near CHIPPENHAM. Matt and Charlie responded with local police officers acting as support. The search consisted of checking farm buildings with adjoining fields and a route and path search of local overgrown tracks. The weather conditions for this day was sporadic heavy rain with sunny periods...
February
26 February 2007 - Callout to assist SEBEV to search the following morning for a 30yr male.Slough area.Matt/Charlie and Duncan as support attended.No trace at this time.