Elko County Sheriff’s Posse and Search and Rescue

 Local County Sheriffs are assigned by Nevada Revised Statue (NRS) the responsibility of searching for lost people within their respective counties.  Elko County’s Sheriff, Dale Lotspeich has asked the Posse and Elko County Search and Rescue to ultimately provide Elko County with “full-service” search and rescue (SAR) teams.

In order to fulfill the Sheriff’s request, ECSP/ECSAR is soliciting Elko County residents to find volunteers interested in participating in its programs.

SAR is looking for talent and leadership in several different SAR services areas:

• Rope skills, high/low-angle rescue
• K-9 (tracking/trailing, area, human remains (HRD))
• Fast-water rescue and still water recovery
• Avalanche rescue
• Special Vehicles (ATV, snowmobiles, boats, aircraft)
• Off-highway vehicles (OHV)
• Trackers
• Skills in the area of incident command (IC)
• Horizontal ice rescue
• Land navigation
• Equestrian SAR
• Wilderness survival

Those interested can involve themselves at different levels:

• As an active member of Elko County SAR (requires a complete application)*
• As a citizen not wanting to join and train regularly with SAR, but having a valuable and unique SAR talent or resource they would commit at the time of a search (requires a letter of intent/involvement submitted to the ECSAR. *
• Citizens who are willing to provide their personal services in support of a missing person search (requires a letter of intent/involvement) *

If we have piqued your interest and you would like to serve you community in the area of search and rescue then this is your opportunity.   Act by submitting a paper copy from one of the appropriate forms: (click one)

Elko County SAR Application 

ECSAR Letter of Intent/Commitment

Please return the completed forms to the Sheriff’s Department. 

Elko County Sheriff

775 West Silver Street

Elko, NV 89801

Note the contents of the envelope by writing either “Application”, or “Letter of Intent”, on the outside of the envelope.

* Active membership requires finger printing and passing a background check and a peer-group review for approval.  Although security training is available to those desirous, SAR members are neither required to qualify for, nor provide armed/unarmed security services. 

 ECSAR uses the letter of intent/involvement solely as a resource guide.  It neither obligates the individual nor their resources/equipment to the ECSAR in any way or fashion.

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