UKLSI Instructors
Our instructors are all volunteers drawn from a variety of teams and backgrounds. You can read more about each of them below.
Robert Bradley
Adrian Edwards
Andrea Edwards
Lou Holmes
Jon Sawyer
Steve Upton
Elaine Wakefield
Robert Bradley
Lowland Search Team: Non-Operational
Robert teaches on all three search courses put on by UKLSI and is involved with a lot of the research carried out by the organisation.
Robert is a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Defence and Disaster Studies and a Member of the Institute for Learning. He lectures on, and assesses the quality of, further and higher education courses on incident management and major incident planning.
Adrian Edwards
Lowland Search Team: Wilsar
Adrian has previously held the positions of Vice-Chair and Acting Chair of ALSAR. He is currently the Training Officer for Wilsar.
Adrian teaches on our ST and LSTL courses.
Andrea Edwards
Lowland Search Team: Wilsar
Andrea holds the position of ALSAR Secretary but also plays an extremely important role within UKLSI - acting as our Training Coordinator.
Andrea also teaches on our ST and LSTL courses.
Lou Holmes
Lowland Search Team: BSAR, LSD-TV and Chiltern Search Dogs
Lou has recently stood down from her position as Chair of LSDogs and is a highly experienced dog handler as well as being a qualified search coordinator.
Lou teaches on our ST and LSTL courses. She is also the recipient of a Chief Constable's Commendation for her part in a high profile search.
Jon Sawyer
Lowland Search Team: Chiltern Search Dogs
Jon is training to become a Lowland Search dog handler and is a Police officer with Thames Valley Police. He is a Search Team Leader, planning and leading major crime, defensive and vulnerable missing persons searches.
Jon teaches on our ST and LSTL courses and has considerable input into our preservation of evidence modules.
Steve Upton
Lowland Search Team: Wilsar
Steve currently holds the position of Training Officer for ALSAR, as well as being Chair of Wilsar. He also works as a civilian instructor for Wiltshire Police Constabulary.
A qualified Search Manager Steve teaches on our 3 main search courses and is the primary instructor/assessor for our Navigation course.
Elaine Wakefield
Lowland Search Team: Wilsar
Elaine is a qualified Search Manager and teaches on our 3 main search courses as well as on our Navigation course.
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