New Mexico Search and Rescue Missions

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NMSARC Missions

Missions

New Mexico conducts all wilderness search and rescue (SAR) missions under a centralized, highly-structured system utilizing volunteer search and rescue teams and resources. The carefully-structured response plan, authorized by the New Mexico Search and Rescue Act in 1978, assures that a formidable array of resources can be quickly mobilized under the time-tested protocols of the Incident Command System (ICS). Unlike many other states, where local law enforcement agencies assume responsibility for managing a SAR mission using official agency resources, the New Mexico system operates under a system of volunteer SAR responders acting under the authority of the New Mexico State Police. Through the ICS, a direct line of authority flows from the Governor to the State Police to the on-scene Incident Commander (IC). The responding IC has the authority to activate any emergency responders needed, some possibly from surrounding states, to help find or rescue a person or persons.

DISCLAIMER: The information posted here comes from the SAR Resource Office, which in turn comes from the mission reports. If you have a concern with this information, please direct your correspondence to the SAR Resource Officer.

Missions are posted in order received.

Mission nomenclature is as follows: 00-00-00
The first two sets of numbers are the year, the next two are the New Mexico State Police district in which the mission occurred and the last two are the number of missions that has occurred in that district for that year.