05/13/12 – In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation which designated May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day, and the week in which that date falls as Police Week. Monday is the beginning of many activities in which police officers are honored. 

 As part of “National Police Week”, a national police organization has chosen the Houston Police Department to host this year’s conference. And in turn, the Houston Police Department has chosen Texas EquuSearch to also play a big part in this year’s conference. Part of our involvement is for Texas EquuSearch to conduct a mock search … which will be videoed for training of investigators and officers involved in missing person cases. After editing, the video will be seen, and critiqued by many law enforcement officers and agencies throughout the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s be honest. This is a really big honor. There are dozens of teams that would have done anything to be in our shoes. We will be representing Texas EquuSearch and seen by a lot of people. So it is very important that we all look sharp and very professional. Be clean shaven (unless you have a beard). We want to display the highest degree of training, skills, dedication, integrity and intelligence. We want them to have confidence and trust on our abilities.

The special mock-search assignment will begin at 6:30 a.m. on Monday – May 14^th 2012 at Houston Police Department’s Mykawa Rd. sub-station, located at 8300 Mykawa Rd. 77033, (between Belfort St. and Airport Blvd.) The GPS for that location is: 29°39’29.83″N   95°19’0.38″W. We will be in need of searchers on foot and ATVs. Please be prompt so that you do not miss any information being provided. The Houston Police Department has insisted that all Texas EquuSearch personnel must wear their Texas EquuSearch, office issued t-shirts. It is preferred that you wear the white TES t-shirts. Please wear black or dark long pants. If you don’t have black or dark pants, please wear blue jeans. But do not wear camouflage, green beige, pink or any other colors. If you have any further questions, contact Frank Black @ (713) 301-6813. Thank you very much for your help in this project.

For your convenience, we have outlined a few key voting details below. You may view the full Voting Rules at http://www.zingpromotions.com/100-cfg/100-Cars-for-Good-Voting-Rules.pdf. Once the Voting Period officially goes live, the full Voting Rules will be available on the site.
• The Voting Period for Texas EquuSearch is on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 ONLY.
• Voting will begin at 10:00 a.m. ET and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. ET (9:00 a.m. CST through 10:59 CST) on the day of the Voting Period (MAY 23, 2012).
• Our supporters can sign-up to receive a voting reminder on the morning of your scheduled voting date. To receive the reminder, go to www.100carsforgood.com and click the “finalist” tab. Once you locate our organization, you can simply click the “remind me” link.
• Voters must be legal residents of the fifty (50) United States/Washington D.C., thirteen (13) years of age or older, and members of Facebook.
• In order to cast a vote, the Voter must log into his/her Facebook account.
• Voters must visit the 100 Cars for Good app, located at www.100carsforgood.com and follow the on-screen instructions to vote for the Finalist Organization of your choice (Texas EquuSearch).
• Each individual Voter is limited to one (1) vote per person, per daily voting period regardless of how many email addresses or Facebook accounts are registered to such individual person.
• Employees and staff associated with the Finalist Organization are permitted to participate as individual Voters in accordance with the eligibility criteria and the Voting Rules.
• Any suspected or deliberate attempt to manipulate, or otherwise fraudulently tamper with the voting process, may result in disqualification of the Voter and/or the Finalist Organization, at the Program Entities’ sole discretion. Fraudulent tampering includes but is not limited to:
o Registering for multiple Facebook accounts and/or using multiple e-mail addresses to establish multiple Facebook accounts;
o Offering any type of inducement or compensation (monetarily or otherwise) to any third party, in exchange for a vote in any manner;
o Using a vote exchange or brokering website/application to exchange votes in an attempt to manipulate the outcome of the voting;
o Developing strategic alliances with other Finalist Organizations or groups in an attempt to exchange votes which will adversely impact other Organizations scheduled for such Daily Voting Period (Example: Organization A offers to direct their supporters to vote for Organization B in exchange for Organization B directing their supporters to vote for Organization A);
o Votes generated by a macro, script, bot or other fraudulent means in an attempt to manipulate the outcome of one or more Daily Voting Periods; and
o Use of proxy voting.

Thank you in advance for your support.  We will post the results once we are notified.

For a downloadable flyer, click here.

Sneak Peek:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385273n&tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesArea.0

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Sequent Energy Management presents Texas EquuSearch Sports Extravaganza Banquet and Charity Auction benefiting Texas EquuSearch. The Event will be held on April 9, 2011. The Event is being held at Campbell Hall, Pasadena Fairgrounds, 7902 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, Texas 77507. Our Special Guest Star will be 7-time Pro Bowler and NFL Defensive Player of the Year, Ed Reed of the Baltimore Ravens.  The Master of Ceremonies is going to be Dave Ward, Anchor of local ABC, KTRK of Houston, TX.  La Brisa Mexican Bar and Grill will be catering the Event, and live music will be performed by The Tony Hill Band and the Auctioneer is Mr. Bear Hebert.  If you would like to attend this Event, see flyer for details.  Updates on this Event will be posted on a regular basis. 

For a downloadable flyer, click here.

To see news coverage of this story, follow link below.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/zones/7496056.html

http://www.ultimatepasadena.com/stories/239080-event-at-pasadena-fairgrounds-to-benefit-texas-eqqusearch

http://www.ultimateclearlake.com/stories/238646-nfl-player-ed-reed-to-speak-at-equusearch-event

http://www.ultimatepasadena.com/stories/238645-nfl-player-ed-reed-to-speak-at-equusearch-event

http://www.ultimatepasadena.com/stories/235172-texas-equusearch-presents-sports-extravaganza-event

PLEASE NOTE…… Parking is available BEHIND the fire station, ON THE GRASS AREA ONLY, and in front of the class room building which sits at the BACK of the three building complex.

VERY IMPORTANT….Parking will be allowed ONLY on this grassy area and NOT anywhere on or off the shoulder of the shell road that circles the complex. This road is used for the Fire Departments emergency vehicles and we CANNOT block their travel.

Due to the fact we search so often for Alzheimer victims, it was my thought that we should have an expert in that field to speak to our members. This will enhance, I believe, our search efforts and better assist us in directing our recourses when on such a search.

All TES members, both new and “vetrans” should be encouraged to attend this most worthwhile informative presentation. It will make ALL of us better TES searchers in our on-going efforts to serve the public.

Speaker: Ms. Katie Olson
Lead Education Coordinator
Alzheimer’s Association
Houston & Southeast Texas Chapter

Ms. Olson is a certified Master Trainer for the National Alzheimer’s Association.  

AGENDA FOR ORIENTATION/TRAINING CLASS
April 16, 2011

7:00 a.m.:……Building open to set up tables and chairs.

8:30 a.m.:……TES Member/Instructor Ken DeFoor – Orientation class for all new members and/or those who have never attended Orientation.

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.:……TES Member/Instructor Ron Overman – “Safety and Search Operations”

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.:……Break

10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.:……Guest Speaker Ms. Katie Olson, Education Coordinator, Alzheimer’s Association, Houston & Southeast Texas Chapter.

11:45 a.m. – 12 noon:……Break

12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.:……TES Member/Instructor Beth McClanahan….Proper completion of TES forms.

12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.:……TES test covering class room material presented.

12:30 p.m.: Leave class room and go to field search area located at the dead end of Line Drive just SOUTH of Red Bluff Rd.
(NOTE) Please remember to bring your lunch and eat on the way to search area or while there. We tend to get scattered and lose time if everyone stops at various restaurants to eat lunch.

Approx. 1:30 p.m.:……TES Member/Operations Officer Frank Black begins Command Post Operations and search assignments.

Approx. 4:30 p.m.:……Operations Officer Frank Black will debrief members. Search Operations ends and days activities terminated.

As always, an open invitation is extended to our TES Board of Directors to drop by and observe all or part of our class room training and/or the field searches.

On behalf of our Director, Tim Miller, who will be out of town during this event, he wishes to thank each of you for your unselfish donation of your time, talents and search equipment to make Texas EquuSearch one of the best trained and immediately responsive Search organizations in the country.

Ken DeFoor
TES Training

To see news coverage of this story, follow link below.

http://www.click2houston.com/video/27007286/index.html

For a downloadable flyer, click here.

For a downloadable flyer regarding featured entertainment, click here.

Hosted by: Lake Whitney Rescue Association
February 19, 2011
Whitney High School
FM 933 North
Lake Whitney, Texas 76692

Registration is $50.00 if paid by February 11, 2011, $75.00 is paid after February 11, 2011. Pre-Registration should be sent to Randy Black, 611 South Llano, Whitney, TX 76692. MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: Lake Whitney Rescue Association. The fee includes lunch and a t-shirt. There are no refunds on registration, but substitutions are allowed.

Food and lodging are the individual member’s responsibility. Please contact Sherry McKinney at sherry.mckinney@texasequusearch.org or 281-309-9500 by February 8, 2011 if you register for this class so we can get an accurate head count of our members who will be attending.

EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS: It is recommended that participants bring a hat, eye protection, sunscreen, gloves, rugged footwear, highly visible clothing (no camo) any other gear suitable for wearing in heavy brush. A personal equipment pack containing flat-faced compass, GPS unit and instruction manual, small personal first aid kit, water bottle, raingear and insect repellant.

For a downloadable Registration Form, click here.

For a downloadable Program of the training, click here.