Deployments

Over the years OVERT has been frequently deployed at the request of a variety of primary response agencies in the Greater Toronto Area. Many of these operations involve the search for missing and/or potentially abducted persons. Our goal in these deployments is to reunite the missing person with their family and loved ones.

The emotional toll that is brought upon the family during a missing person search can be profound. OVERT and its members are very mindful of this fact, as such OVERT takes great care to safe guard family privacy and will not release specific details relating to a specific missing persons search.

Beyond missing person searches OVERT also provides community response during other large scale emergencies. Incidents such as floods, power failures, public health emergencies are proud examples of the diverse set of responses OVERT is capable of providing. OVERT regularly trains with Emergency Management Organizations to provide assistance during a large scale disaster or evacuation.

Most recently OVERT has participated in the following activities:

July 2009 – Canada Day celebrations in Oshawa – Child Find services with Durham Regional Police

June 2009 – Disaster Exercise Durham region – large scale evacuation planning and training

April 2009 – Missing person search, Gravenhurst with Georgian Bay SAR and the OPP – Incident resolved subject found

February 2009 – Missing person search, Durham region with Durham Regional Police – Incident resolved subject found

Burma 2008

Peru 2008

Trent Hills Flood 2008

Secord Av Apartment Explosion 2008

Kasheshewan evacuation 2005

Peterborough Floods 2004

Bowmanville Propane Explosion 2004

SARS 2003

Blackout of 2003



***Note out of respect and privacy of individual families OVERT will not elaborate on any missing persons searches we have been involved in.