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Information Gathering 

When a crisis situation is suspected or has been confirmed one of the first things that can be done to assist with future efforts toward personnel team member care and recovery is the documentation of events and the gathering of information. These details can be lost or skewed over even short periods of time due to emotions and information overload. The Team Field Leader should assign personnel a team member to begin documenting detailed information regarding the incident, secure the location, and start an investigation to include, but not limited to:

• Securing the Area. Many crisis situations involve criminal activity and one of the first steps to be taken will be to secure the area accordingly. Often clues are left behind that trained personnel can utilize to assist in the recovery of your personnelefforts. However, great care should be given to avoiding crime scene contamination.
• Establish a Starting Point. When the location of this organization’s personnel Reliant team members is in question, identify the last known location of the victims and establish a time frame for when they were noted as missing. Confirm their routes of travel leading up to the incident and locations they might have visited en route.
• Start Documentation. Establish how you discovered that your personnel they were missing, : were they involved in an accident or , critical incident, or abducted.  Take ?  Take names of witnesses and record, on video preferably, each person’s observations.  personnel Team members completing this task should help document their findings in the Initial Crisis Report with Reliant which should include, but not be limited to:

1. Time of day and location
2. Description of what happened
3. Number and description of people involved:
   1. Male or female
   2. Approximate age
   3. Clothing description
   4. Identifying marks (beard, scars, hair style/color, tattoos, etc.)
4. Visible weapons (long guns, hand guns, knives, machetes, etc.)
5. Vehicle description
   1. Make, year, model, color, style, license plate (Number/State/Country)
   2. Distinctive markings
6. Direction of travel
7. Anything not previously asked

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On the form information gathering template you will want to ask: (these are the example questions that concilium gave)

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Date

Time

Information Taken By

Caller's Name

Caller's Number

Address

Phone

Location where it occurred

Time of Day it occurred

Personnel Missing

Description of What Happened

Number of People Involved

Description of People Involved

Suspect #1

• Male/Female
• Approximate Age
• Race
• Language
• Height
• Weight
• Hair Style
• Hair Length
• Hair Color
• Build
• Clothing
• Facial Hair (describe)
• Scars/Tattoos (describe)
• Distinctive Markings/Characteristics
• Weapons (long gun, hand gun, knives, machete)-describe
• Misc

Suspect #2

• Male/Female
• Approximate Age
• Race
• Language
• Height
• Weight
• Hair Style
• Hair Length
• Hair Color
• Build
• Clothing
• Facial Hair (describe)
• Scars/Tattoos (describe)
• Distinctive Markings/Characteristics
• Weapons (long gun, hand gun, knives, machete)-describe
• Misc

Description of Vehicle Involved

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