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25 Dec 11: Search Manager called at 0830 by the
Police to search in the Bere Alston area for a
missing 76 year old woman known to have
dementia. Stood down before the team was called
as she was found by a police patrol and returned
to her house. |
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14 Dec 11: Search Manager called out at
2300 for an 86 year old male with dementia in
Galmpton near Hope Cove. Assisted Ashburton from
midnight, but stood
down at 0500 pending police enquiries. Tavistock
continued later that day and his body was found
and recovered. |
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17 and 18 Nov 11: Called out
to Ernesettle in the morning of both days to
look for a missing 59 year old man. Despite two
days of searching he has still not been found
(update: a body has since been discovered near
Ivybridge). |
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6 Nov 11: Jointly called out
with Tavistock team to Norsworthy Bridge at 0800
to search for a suicidal 39 year old man. He was
found not long after the team were deployed |
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1 Sep 11: Called out at 1820
to Kit Hill for a missing 82 year old woman. Joint
with Tavistock and Cornwall. The team was turned
round before we got to the location. The police
located the subject as she walked into a
premises in Milton Abbott where she had lived
some years previously. |
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11 Aug 11:
Rob Illman from
Ashburton team asked the us to bring the team to
a location near Dartmouth to look for a 39 year
old male suicidal despondent. He was found by
H.M. Coastguard while the team were en route. |
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25 Jul 11: Team called out to
Harford Moor Gate to search for a spritely
gentleman overdue at the car park.
He arrived at
Harford having taken a taxi from Sheeps Tor
Village |
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12 Jul 11: Team called to
Dartmouth to search
for a 39 year old
male. We understand he was found near to the RV
by a coastguard team whilst we were en route.
Taken to Torbay hospital where, when we talked
to the police later in the day, he was safe and
well |
2 Mar 11: Alan and
Search Dog Sunny had a call out to carry
out a back up search, following on from
the coast guard, looking for a missing
man whose car was found abandoned on the
cliff top at Bedruthan Steps. As the
tide was in the search was confined to
the cliff top as even Sunny can't search
vertically. Max, Alex Lyons
dog, indicated south of Alan's area,
above some caves and a body was found on
the beach below the next day, by the
CG and when the tide was out.
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15 Jan 11: Called out to
Boringdon Hall at 0915 to look for a missing
person. Person found very soon after, team stood
down at 1015. |