NZLSAR Reference

Section 2 (pages 6 to 10) of the 2nd edition of the New Zealand Land SAR Field Guide (Roger Curl, 2006. ISBN 0-473-04914-7 ) refers to CIMS and the Incident Management Team (IMT). Where there are discrepencies between the information contained in the Field Guide and the NZLSAR Incident Management Guidelines, then you should rely on the information contained in the Guidelines. CIMS is also described in a book entitled 'The New Zealand Coordinated Incident Management System (CIMS), Teamwork in Emergency Management' (The New Zealand Fire Service Commission, 1998, ISBN 0-908920-32-6).

Expected Competencies

All WLSAR Incident Management Team personnel must be CIMS compliant and be able to function effectively within the CIMS environment.

Search Management

WLSAR volunteers undertake the following 5 main roles in an incident management team:

• Planning and Intelligence
• Operation managers
• Logistics
• Computer/IT support
• Communications

Any given management team must have completed a combination of the following training courses:

• CIMS level 4 a 2 day introduction to the Co-ordinated Incident Management System.
• Introduction to Search Management a 1 to 2 day introductory course
• MLSO Managing Land Search Operations, a 40 hour course
• TUMONZ training a 2 day module in how to operate WLSAR's mapping software