The team is been involve in big search this last week in and around Ivybridge for a high risk missing male.
Incident 21. | 24/11 13:50
On Tuesday afternoon the Devon & Cornwall Police requested a full team callout to search for a high risk missing male, at 15:24 or sister team from Ashburton was a callout to assist us with the search.
On arrival at Ivybridge, Members were put in teams to start searching the area, with no sighting of the missing male, a halt to the search was called at approximately 20:00hrs, with the likelihood to resume searching the following day.
In Attendance:
- 21 DSRTP
- 22 DSRTA
- Devon & Cornwall Police
- Total duration: 7hrs 00mins
- Total Volunteer hours: 147hrs 0mins
Incident 22. | 25/11 10:00
On Wednesday as expected Devon & Cornwall Police callout the team to resume our search in the Ivybridge for the missing male. With no sighting of the missing male, a halt to the search was called at approximately 16:30hrs, with the likelihood to resume searching the following day.
In Attendance:
- 21 DSRTP
- Devon & Cornwall Police
- Total duration: 6hrs 30mins
- Total Volunteer hours: 136hrs 30mins
Our control vehicle DART74 was stranded on the side of the road with clutch problem after some calling around we found a local garage “Victoria Garage Ivybridge LTD” that got fix this for us. They help us out big time did they not only fix the clutch very fast for us (2 days) they also charge us only labour cost, and this is a big help to the team. BIG THANK YOU 👍🏻 to the team at Victoria Garage!
Incident 23. | 26/11 09:00
On Thursday Devon & Cornwall Police requested the water asset from the team (12 SRT (MOD3) and 3 MOD2) to come out to search the River Erme, Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service deployed 5 SRT to assist with the search. With no sighting of the missing male, a halt to the search was called at approximately 16:30hrs, with the likelihood to resume searching the following day.
We would like to say a BIG THANK YOU 👍🏻 to The Salvation Army, The Bridge in Ivybridge for the coffee, tea and the biscuits 😊
In Attendance:
- 17 DSRTP
- 6 Devon & Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service
- Devon & Cornwall Police
- Total duration: 7hrs 30mins
- Total Volunteer hours: 122hrs 30mins
Incident 24. | 27/11 11:00
On Friday as expected Devon & Cornwall Police callout the team to resume our search in the Ivybridge for the missing male. With no sighting of the missing male, a halt to the search was called at approximately 16:30hrs, with the likelihood to resume searching the following day.
In Attendance:
- 12 DSRTP
- Devon & Cornwall Police
- Total duration: 5hrs 30mins
- Total Volunteer hours: 71hrs 00mins
Incident 25. | 28/11 10:00
On Saturday as expected Devon & Cornwall Police callout the team to resume our search in the Yealmpton for the missing male. With no sighting of the missing male, a halt to the search was called at approximately 12:30hrs, police enquiries continue.
In Attendance:
- 25 DSRTP
- Devon & Cornwall Police
- Total duration: 2hrs 30mins
- Total Volunteer hours: 62hrs 30mins
On today’s callout our Land Rover Defender DART54 contract a problem with reversing it looks like it has a cylinder issue that is now looking at by Jack Fielder Land Rover at will hopefully back on the road by the end of Monday
We would like to say a big thank you to the members of the public 👍🏻 for their support during this week in and around Ivybridge.
We remain operational at this difficult, responding to assist Devon & Cornwall Police in searching for vulnerable missing people.
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#MISSING PERSON: Have you seen Wayne? #Police are concerned for his welfare. He may be in #Plymouth, #Ivybridge or travelling through the South Hams. https://t.co/xfBOHcbjzl pic.twitter.com/K8HrBIObQE
— Devon & Cornwall Police (@DC_Police) November 26, 2020
