Editing Search and rescue (section)

===Australia===
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The Australian search and rescue service is provided by three authorities; the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) at the [[Australian Maritime Safety Authority]] (AMSA), the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the State/Territory Police Jurisdictions.  In a very broad sense, the JRCC respond to national and international registered aircraft, off shore marine incidents and beacon activations. The ADF are responsible for Australian and foreign military personnel, vehicles, vessels and aircraft while within the Australian SRR.  Police are responsible for coastal marine incidents, lost persons, unregistered aircraft, inland waterways, ports and identified beacons.<ref name="AusSAR">{{cite web|url = http://www.amsa.gov.au/Search_and_Rescue/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040406222552/http://www.amsa.gov.au/Search_and_rescue/|url-status = dead|archive-date = 6 April 2004|title = Search & Rescue|access-date = 4 November 2009|last = Australian Maritime Safety Authority|date = June 2009}}</ref> The JRCC operates a 24-hour Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) in [[Canberra]] and is responsible for the national coordination of both maritime and aviation search and rescue. The JRCC is also responsible for the management and operation of the Australian [[ground segment]] of the [[Cospas-Sarsat]] distress beacon detection system. The JRCC's jurisdiction spans Australia and as well as covering 52.8 million square kilometres of the [[Indian Ocean|Indian]], [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] and [[Southern Ocean]]s<ref name="AusSAR"/> constituting about 11% of the Earth's surface.<ref>{{cite web|last =Woolner|first= Derek |date =June 2008 |publisher = Australian Strategic Policy Institute|url = https://ad-aspi.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/import/SI41_Coastguard.pdf?VersionId=IZMYqJrzLORiDd2g6J7ffKqENOrDQuKt |title = Policing our ocean domain: establishing an Australian coast guard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403054900/https://www.aspi.org.au/publications/strategic-insights-41-policing-our-ocean-domain-establishing-an-australian-coast-guard/SI41_Coastguard.pdf |archive-date=3 April 2016}}</ref>

The JRCC is staffed by SAR specialists who have a naval, [[merchant marine]], air force, [[civil aviation]] or police service background. The JRCC also coordinates medical evacuations, broadcasts maritime safety information and operates the Australian Ship Reporting System (AUSREP).<ref name="AusSAR"/> In coordinating search and rescue missions, the JRCC will call on assistance from organisations as appropriate,<ref>The first suggestion made to use helicopters in Australian searches for missing people, sea rescues, and general support during bush-fires, floods, etc. was made in a letter to the editor, written from the Brisbane suburb of [[Balmoral, Queensland|Balmoral]], and published in the Brisbane ''Courier-Mail'' at the end of 1953 ([http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51094737 Value of Helicopter, (Letter to the Editor, from "Wake Up, Australia"), ''Courier Mail'', (Thursday, 31 December 1953), p.2.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104193941/http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/51094737 |date=4 January 2016 }})</ref> such as the Defence forces, [[Border Protection Command]], trained aviation organisations (Civil SAR Units), emergency medical helicopters, state Police services and trained Air Observers from the [[State Emergency Service]].<ref name="SA-SES_AirObs">{{cite web|url = http://www.ses.sa.gov.au/site/about_us/what_ses_does/air_search_observation.jsp|title = Air Search Observation|access-date = 21 March 2011|archive-date = 27 March 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110327043035/http://www.ses.sa.gov.au/site/about_us/what_ses_does/air_search_observation.jsp|url-status = dead}}</ref> There are also other organisations, such as the non-profit [[Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service]] that is based at a number of sites around Australia and contracted by various authorities to deliver search and rescue services.

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[[Image:BSAR searchers at Mount Dom Dom P3260158.JPG|thumb|right|[[Bush Search and Rescue Victoria|BSAR]] searchers at [[Mount Dom Dom]].]]
[[State police|State Police]] in many states operate state-based search and rescue squads, such as the [[Victoria Police Search and Rescue Squad]], which provides specialist expertise, advice and practical assistance in land search and rescue on most terrain including snow and vertical cliff search and rescue.<ref name="VictoriaSAR">{{cite web|url = http://www.police.vic.gov.au/content.asp?Document_ID=174|title= Victoria Police Search and Rescue Squad| access-date = 4 November 2009|last = State of Victoria|date=June 2007}}</ref> There are also state-based volunteer search and rescue groups such as the [[NSW SES Bush Search and Rescue]] in [[New South Wales]] and [[Bush Search and Rescue Victoria]]<ref name="BSARAus">{{cite web|url = http://www.bsar.org|title = Bush Search and Rescue Victoria|access-date = 4 November 2009|author1=Bush Search |author2=Rescue Victoria |date=October 2009}}</ref> in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. These state-based groups draw searchers from bushwalking, mountaineering and specialist rescue clubs within their State.  A few groups respond on horseback as [[mounted search and rescue]]. The [[State Emergency Service]] is a collection of volunteer-based emergency organisations established in each state or territory which are responsible for many rescue efforts in urban and rural areas and in any rescue that results from flood or storm activity. In rural areas the SES conducts most bush search, vertical and road traffic rescues. In urban areas they assist the police and fire services with USAR.<ref name="SESabout">{{cite web|url = http://www.ses.nsw.gov.au/about/|title = About the SES|access-date = 4 November 2009|last = State of New South Wales|date=December 2008}}</ref>