About me and IPP

For almost 40 years, I have been involved in search and rescue. During that time, I have seen how much valuable information is being produced across the SAR community: news, research, training material, case studies, operational learning and the experiences of people doing the work.

The internet has given us amazing access to information. More than ever, we can learn from people, incidents and ideas from around the world. But that access also brings a challenge: the information is everywhere.

It is spread across different websites, organisations, publications, journals and social platforms. Finding what is useful can take time, and important ideas or hard-won lessons can easily be missed.

That is why I created IPP.

IPP is intended to bring search and rescue news, articles, research, case studies and other useful material together in one place. It will be developed over the coming months as a practical resource for search and rescue practitioners everywhere.

The aim is not to replace the organisations, authors or experts who create this material. It is to help make their work easier to find, while bringing different perspectives and areas of experience into view.

My hope is that IPP becomes useful to everyone involved in SAR: operational searchers, planners, team leaders, trainers, researchers, managers and those just beginning their journey.

This is an independent project, created from a personal interest in making search and rescue knowledge more accessible. It is not owned by, or intended to represent, any team, charity, employer or other organisation that I may be involved with.

IPP exists to help bring scattered knowledge together — so that, together, we can search smarter.