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- | == Page 5 == | + | == Public Relations Policy == |
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- | === Public Relations Policy ===
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- | Pincher Creek SAR adopted August 2001
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- | Our Search and Rescue
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- | group deals with situations where people's lives can hang in the
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- | balance.
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- | The group must strive for the very best relationship with
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- | the public and the organizations with which it deals. We cannot
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- | afford to have individuals or organizations hesitate to call upon
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- | us or to work with us in resolving an emergency.
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- | For this reason,
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- | we do not take sides on any controversy in the community. Our SAR
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- | group holds no opinion on matters outside of Search and Rescue and
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- | the Civil Emergency Response. We welcome members regardless of
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- | their apparent alignment to any faction or clique; we judge them
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- | solely on their contributions to the Search and Rescue effort.
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- | Our
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- | group is judged not only by its formal organizational face, but by
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- | the actions of its members. Whenever we wear the Search and Rescue
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- | name, whether on a coat or hat or on our vehicle, whenever we say
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- | we are Search and Rescue volunteers, we are associating ourselves
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- | with Search and Rescue and our actions will reflect on the SAR
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- | group. At these times we should
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- | * be prepared to help out in any emergency within the limits of our training and ability,
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- | * be respectful of others, and,
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- | * if offering an opinion, clearly distinguish when we are reflecting the policies of the SAR group and when we are expressing our own views.
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- | When we work or
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- | train for emergencies, we inevitably build relationships with
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- | people in positions of authority. As SAR volunteers we respect the
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- | privilege of having these relationships and only request special
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- | treatment when needed to deal with emergencies, training and
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- | education.
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- | As volunteers, we put a lot of time, effort, and soul
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- | into Search and Rescue. It is often tempting to seek out the
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- | appreciation of the community by making it clear how much we
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- | individually have contributed -- by saying in effect "look at me,
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- | look at what I have done." However, it is largely impossible to put
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- | ourselves forward without some people seeing it as self-promoting.
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- | So this we are asked to give up for the benefit of the SAR group.
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- | At times we will feel under appreciated. The thanks we receive,
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- | although welcome will be infrequent and from some sources
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- | altogether missing. This too we are asked to suffer quietly.
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- | We
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- | give up the desire for special recognition and treat our role in
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- | Search and Rescue with reverence. We willingly do so in order to
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- | have the very best relationship with the public and other
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- | organizations with which we work and on which we rely in an
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- | emergency.
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- | These things we do, that others may live.
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| == Additional pages == | | == Additional pages == |
This page provides our New Member Package.
A hard copy is available and can be found in
the membership binder which is at the regular meetings.
In addition to these pages, a Personnel Record sheet, Resource
Checklist, and Expense Form are in the hardcopy package.