Date: July
12-14, 2019
Time: 6:00 p.m., Friday, July 12,
2019 through 5:00 p.m., Sunday, July 14,
2019
Location: Cowlitz
County SAR, 1800 Western Lane, Kelso, Washington 98686
Course Cost: $300.00 payable to Cowlitz County
SAR, PO Box 474, Kelso, WA 98626
- $100
deposit required to reserve space in this class, due by June 12, 2019.
Meals & Accommodations: Accommodations and meals are not provided. There are many hotels within one mile of the
training building. Students may sleep in
their vehicles within the SAR compound.
Also, they may sleep on the floor of the SAR building. Please contact Sharon Ward if you
would like to stay at the compound.
There
are NO prerequisites for this training presentation. This tracking course is open to all persons
with tracking interests regardless of previous experience or training and will
focus on primary training for beginning or novice student interests. This will
be a certification course for all eligible students. All tracking students will be provided
training at an appropriate level for their development and upward progress.
Course Content: This will be a 24
hour course beginning at 6:00 pm Friday July
12, with registration and lecture including power
point presentation to provide Novice and Basic tracker understanding of
training methodology, techniques and procedures. The presentation supports field training by
providing student understanding of training methods, manner and
objectives. “Tracking” is a first
response primary search resource used to verify witness statements, establish
the “PLS”, direction of subject travel and following the physical evidence to
the missing person. Field training will
allow “student tracking team” experimentation and “hands-on” practice of fundamental tracking techniques. Novice students will progress from initial
identifying a print, to “step-by-step” every track concept of following an identified
sign line and practical tracking team response.
This
is a “skill development” training program for Apprentice and Journeyman Tracker
students. Students at these levels have
acquired Basic Tracker understanding and will be introduced to practical
tracking techniques and applications necessary to become a viable resource for
SAR missions. Students at all training levels will be individually challenged
with additional advanced tracking concepts and techniques. Journeyman Tracker
students will be provided advanced training objectives working with Novice and
Apprentice students and separately in simulated actual SAR and law enforcement
mission scenarios.
Please
bring to this training course your current training manual and tracking
logs. Should you anticipate challenging the certification board for
advancement: Please advise your trainer in advance so that person may
prepare a recommendation and your training records; you must bring your
personal tracking and training logs and records.
Student Needs: Students should be
physically fit and equipped for SAR field response. Field practice will
continue during any inclement weather, students should be properly prepared
with wet/dry, cold/hot weather gear. Knee pads may be helpful. Students need to bring a pen/pencil, note
pad, small measuring tape, 5/8 inch doweling or similar, 36 to 40 inches long,
with three rubber bands to use as a tracking stick and a three cell
flashlight. Signed copies of Joel’s book
are available by direct contact with Joel at Joel@jhardin-inc.com
Sharon Ward at 503-704-2366
Send
your deposit to: Cowlitz County SAR, C/O Sharon Ward, PO
Box 13410, Portland, OR 97213-0410. Pre-registered
students failing to attend this course without a reasonable excuse will be assessed
the $100.00 service fee.
Sponsor
Information: This course is sponsored by Cowlitz
County Search & Rescue. All interested law
enforcement and SAR volunteer personnel are invited to attend.