Operational Support
Laurence Jeffries ….click to read more
Laurence is an operational support. He is the team’s resident technical expert on all things radio.
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Andy Edwards……click to read more
Andy attends callouts as an Operational support and has started beginners search dog training with his dog Jess. Andy is a founder member of the team and training lead. He is the the teams resident go to guy for everything in relation to water safety, navigation and search techniques.
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Nick Graham……click to read more
Nick is an operational team member, he regularly attends callouts supporting our dog handlers or joining the foot search teams. Nick is training his search dog Tyler in the trailing discipline and when qualified will be our first trailing dog an exciting new development for the team. In 2018 Nick was part of a team searching for a elderly man reported missing in Bournemouth. There was concern for the mans health and welfare because he had been missing all day and night was drawing in, Nick was a member of the foot search team who located the man.
Sheila Potticary ……click to read more
Sheila Potticary operational team member attends regular callouts as an operational support for our dog handlers. Sheila was voted in as Member Trustee in March 2020.
Rich Weller ……click to read more
Level 1 (Trainee), Operational Support
Rich joined the team in 2018 and is a qualified Search Technician providing operational support to our search dog teams. Rich is also training to be a dog handler with his Level 1 (trainee) search dog Jasmine. “I attended my first training session with Dorset Search Dogs in October 2018. 12 months later I am now an operational Search Technician […]