Leicestershire Search & Rescue is a specialist search and rescue team that aim to find missing vulnerable adults and children and assist with rescues from remote areas of the countryside. They are on-call 24 hours a day, with a team of 50+ people and search dogs, to respond across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. They have a number of search and rescue dogs who are trained to Lowland Rescue Standards. Dogs are trained to detect any human scent, and the training is built up in stages until the dogs are ready to carry out successful searches. Typically, training takes place weekly, all year round, and it will take six months before the dog handler/support achieves qualification standards and around two years before a dog team is ready to be nationally assessed. K9 dogs are the handlers own pets, so they have all of the usual costs such as food etc.; they provide K9 insurance plus PPE for both handler and dog and this costs around £500 a year per K9.