The Team provides an essential service, not only to walkers and climbers, but also to the local community. The primary function of the Team is to provide a search and rescue service in upland mountainous areas, assist the police to search for vulnerable missing persons in lowland rural areas. The majority of the Team’s incidents have been in Derbyshire, South and West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. However the Team has also been called to incidents as far as Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire and major incidents like Lockerbie. It provides search and rescue services in some of the most demanding upland areas in the Peak District.

The Team actively promotes safety in the hills by giving talks and demonstrations to any interested organisations, particularly youth groups, attending summer fetes. The Team is affiliated to the PDMRO and through that body to the Mountain Rescue (MCR), the National body for Mountain Rescue (MR) in England and Wales.

The PDMRO co-ordinates all MR activities in the Peak district maintaining formal links with the three other emergency services for Derbyshire and adjoining Counties. In 1996 the Team looked at the requirement s of a modern Mountain Rescue Service and to put us on a good footing for the next Twenty-Five Years we needed Headquarters to provide a central base for the co-ordination of the single or multi team Search and Rescue operations.