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Mantracking or Sign Cutting Tracking is the only physical evidence resource available to SAR missions. Trained human trackers are a primary, immediate response resource for SAR managers to establish (1) bona fides of a reported missing person incident, (2) factually establish the Point-Last-Seen, (3) determine the direction of travel, (4) continue a physical evidence pursuit of the missing person's travel. Tracking is the most overlooked investigative tool for crime scene incidents! Tracking is simply detecting and following the sign left by human passage. Every human leaves sign. The job of a tracker or sign cutter is to detect that sign, correctly interpret it and communicate what they have found to others and follow that sign until the lost person is found. Tracking can be done in all weather conditions, day or night. In any particular circumstance it is best to let trackers make the decision as to whether tracking will be effective. As Ab Taylor, a modern master at tracking, has said having a non-tracker decide whether tracking will work is like having a painter decide whether or not surgery is required. At Wilderness Search and Rescue Team we work under the idea that not everyone needs to be a tracker but every member must be track aware. That means that all members have had some exposure to tracking and sign cutting. The team conducts on-going training for all of its members in the skill of tracking. Two of our members have received certification from Universal Tracking Services and a third is in the process of doing so. |
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