POLSAR016 Manage search and rescue operations

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for POLSAR016 ended on 28 July 2026 — 1 month ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockOpen for new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 30 July 2027 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
POL — Police Training Package
Currency period ends
28 July 2026
Latest release
Release 1 · 21 September 2021
Supersedes
POLSAR004
Superseded by
POLSAR029 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. POLSAR016Superseded — not equivalentManage search and rescue operations
  2. not equivalent
  3. POLSAR029CurrentManage search and rescue operations

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • POLSAR004POLSAR016equivalent20 September 2021

    This unit replaces and is equivalent to POLSAR004

  • POLSAR016POLSAR029not equivalent29 July 2026

    Updated Code, Application, Unit Performance Criteria, Performance Evidence and Knowledge Evidence

Is POLSAR016 on your scope?

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Where POLSAR016 is used

training.gov.au lists POLSAR016 inside 1 training product, which it no longer lists as current. It is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for POLSAR016 in that product.

Products no longer current 1 listed

The register still records POLSAR016 inside this one, but it no longer recommends it as current. It is here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at it.

CodeTraining productTypePOLSAR016 is
POL60421Advanced Diploma of Police Search and Rescue ManagementQualificationcore

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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