POLSAR018 Undertake land search and rescue duties

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for POLSAR018 ended on 28 July 2026 — 3 months ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockOpen for new enrolmentsClosing to new enrolments soonClosed to 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 Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations 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, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. This is an obligation of RTOs registered by ASQA; those registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

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).

ASQA asks for extension applications at least 180 days before the transition period ends — for this cutoff that window closes on 31 January 2027 (ASQA guidance on transition extensions, read 29 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

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
POLSAR006
Superseded by
POLSAR025 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. POLSAR018Superseded — equivalentUndertake land search and rescue duties
  2. equivalent
  3. POLSAR025CurrentUndertake land search and rescue duties

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.

  • POLSAR006POLSAR018equivalent20 September 2021

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • POLSAR018POLSAR025equivalent29 July 2026

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for POLSAR018 and for its training package POL (release 11.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

Is POLSAR018 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether POLSAR018 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

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Where POLSAR018 is used

training.gov.au lists POLSAR018 inside 2 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for POLSAR018 in that product.

Products no longer current 2 listed

The register still records POLSAR018 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypePOLSAR018 is
POL58121Diploma of Police Search and Rescue Coordination (Marine / Land)Qualificationelective
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 14 October 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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