IED Clearance Good Practice Guide

3. SEARCH CORE SKILLS AND PROCEDURES

3.1. INTRODUCTION This section describes the core skills and procedures related to IED search. It focuses on the threat of VOIEDs in an urban environment, whether the contaminated space is a building or open area. It is not intended to be globally prescriptive, but rather to help in the development of NMAS and SOPs that are specific to the situations faced in different countries and MA programmes in relation to IED contamination. Search core skills are described in terms of building blocks that can be combined together as procedures to provide confidence that different types of spaces are safe. This approach means that various operational contexts and threats can be accounted for and enables adaption in order to increase efficiency when opportunities for improvement are identified.

Image 1. Use of visual search using a torch as an aid

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