Sorry Morris, I don't agree with you on your judgement of success.
If you are tasked to search a particular area and you fail to find what you are looking for then either
You didn't search well enough
The person or item you were looking for was too well hidden or
The person or item you were looking for was never there when you arrived to commence the search.
Hopefully in all of those cases, what you did do was let the officers on the ground move on to the next task in their never ending list of tasks, satisfied that the area you searched has now been cleared. With the best will in the world, some containments fail before air support arrives. Arrests are a nice bonus but they are not and should not be a judgement of the success or failure of a task.
Last edited by handysnaks; 2nd Oct 2012 at 13:29.