About Us

Precision-Driven Community Search Training

At SARMETRIX we equip communities with the knowledge, discipline, and tools required to support search efforts responsibly, safely, and effectively when someone goes missing.

Missing-person emergencies escalate quickly. Community responders who are trained, structured, and well-informed can make the critical difference between confusion and coordinated action.

Why Community Search Capability Matters

Ireland continues to grapple with a critical and deeply human challenge: locating the missing.

  • More than 10,000 missing-person incidents are reported in Ireland each year.

  • Over 70% involve children and young people under the age of 18.

  • More than 130 children remain unlocated since records began in 1977.

These are not statistics. They are families waiting by the phone in the middle of the night, neighbours searching with worry in their voices, and missing person search responders racing against time with limited resources.

Preparing a community for search and rescue is not a “nice to have.” It is a responsibility we share, and it directly influences how quickly and safely missing people are found.

This SARMETRIX delivered programme gives everyday people clear skills, structure, and confidence so they can help in the right way. It protects safety, preserves evidence, and ensures coordination with official Search and Rescue teams.

A prepared community saves lives. A trained community saves them faster.

Why SARMETRIX

Over 45 years of operational, instructional, and leadership experience in multi-agency missing person search environments.

Core Competencies

  1. Civil Defence Search Management and Command

  2. Field Search, Team Leader, and Tactical Skills Instruction

  3. SARMAN, Advanced Navigation & Map-Reading Instruction

  4. Radio Communications & SAR Communications Leadership

  5. Emergency First Response & Pre-Hospital Support

  6. Specialist Drone Operations for missing person search operations

  7. Engineering Expertise applied to missing person search planning & terrain analysis

  8. Former Defence Forces Instructor with United Nations peace keeping and peace enforcement experience

  9. Advanced geospatial search map generation