The Team regularly uses specially trained dogs to help to locate missing people. These dogs are normally air scenting dogs which can cover huge areas quickly and effectively. They operate off the lead and will indicate to their handler when they have found someone.

It takes a lot of time and effort to train a search dog. The handlers have to be experienced mountain rescue team members before they can commence their training with the Search and Rescue Dog Association. It can take between 18 months and 3 years to train a dog and this training is every week, and must also include other mountainous areas such as Wales, Lake District and Scotland.

Once they become operational, an experienced dog and handler team can quickly cover the area of up to 30 trained searchers.

Cornwall Search and Rescue Team is proud to have been shortlisted to the final three community groups for the Saints Award.

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The Saints Awards recognises people and groups living and working within the PL22 to PL26 postcode who make St Austell and its surrounding areas special. The team, which is based in St Dennis has been nominated in the Community Groups category - which celebrates the contribution to the local community by an organisation.

CSRT which is a registered charity, responds to call outs from the police, fire and ambulance services across the county for missing and injured people, last year being called to 39 incidents. Since being founded in 2003, the team has been called to around 380 incidents, ranging from missing children to major weather events.

To vote for the team - follow the link and scroll to the bottom of the make to make your entry.

Thank you!

Link to This is Cornwall website

Friday 30th December 2011 at 15:00 hrs

The team were asked to RV at Wadebridge Police Station for a vulnerable missing person. Once again, the team were stood down en route after there were located by police.