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The
function of the Searching Service is, also, that within
the humanitarian tasks of Red Cross informs about the
victims of natural and other disasters and other cases
in peace in which there is a need of conecting people
or give information.
Jobs of the Searching Service
In
order to realize its function, the Searching Service
is performing the following jobs:
- collects, finds and accepts data and documents from
the official and all other sources for persons for whom
it is in charge,
- makes evidence, classifies and elaborates data,
- accept requests for starting of the search or giving
information,
- takes over searching for the persons for which there
is a request, unless the service itself has the necessary
data, informs the requesting party and others who have
the right to be informed, about data it obtained,
- issues official documents based on data it has
- acts as an agent in exchanging of the family messages
- act as an agent in delivery of the personal things
and money which the prisoners of war, civil prisoners,
left behind,
- organizes reunions of the members of separated families.
The
Searching Service serves the following categories of
citizens.
I In war or war related, for:
a) war prisoners
b) civil prisoners
c) persons protected by the IV Geneve Convention of
1949 which have been imprisoned for more than two weeks
of to whom a forced stay was recomended
d) wounded, sick and dead soldiers,
e) disappeared persons,
f) children under 14 evacuated into a foreign country,
g) children under 14 separated from their parents due
to a war
Besides informing, the Searching Service does for all
the persons who are war victims:
h) exchange of family messages
i) reunion of separated members of family
II
In
peace or in war, for:
j) victims of natural and other disasters
k) evacuated persons, refugees and similar categories
of persons who left their abodes in larger numbers and
were situated in other places,
l) persons working temporarily abroad and their families,
m) emigrants
n) all other perons for whom the searching has been
started, if the Searching Service estimates that it
can obtain any information within the scope of its work.
The mentioned services can confide to the searching
Service other jobs of searching as well.
By
the Regulation Book, Social Agreement and other regulations
of Red Cross, the competence of the Searching service
for each categorie of the searched for persons in regulated.
The searching Service which is competent carries out
the job for that categorie of persons. The competent
searching Service which leads the entire procedure,
deliveres to it data for elaborating. The searching
service which has got the project, makes the fundamental
data base for those categories of persons for which
it is antisipated and replies to the searching party,
no matter to which Searching Service the request was
directed. All other Searching Services take part in
the procedure and help the mother Searching Service.
In accordance with that, on mother searching Service's
request, those searching Services obtain data or undertake
other necessary actions.
Due
to the specific nature of the job from this area, where
the co-workers are from the Intrnational Federation
of Red Cross Society, the concluding of some projects
is difficult, that is why some of then last longer.
Contact
person: Andrea Vaci - andrea@suredcross.org.yu
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Fax:
+381 24 621-105