National resilience receives major boost as new training centre unveiled in Merseyside...
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Hi Reader,
I’m a big fan of Liverpool and I didn’t need much persuasion to go north and attend the opening ceremony for the new National Resilience Centre of Excellence. There was a great turn out of chiefs and even the new Fire Minister was there on her first official fire visit. For me, it was a blast from the past as 20 years ago I was a civil servant working on the New Dimension programme that saw ￡200m invested in resilience kit after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Find out more in my write up below.
Resilience comes up elsewhere in this week’s digest as Ofcom hit BT with a ￡17.5m fine for the 10 hour outage to the 999 service last year. Even with the 30 per cent discount for admitting liability and cooperating, this is a big fine and a salient lesson for all organisations to be prepared because you never know when the worst might happen.
Catherine Levin , Editor of Emergency Services Times
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STORY OF THE WEEK
National resilience receives major boost as new training centre unveiled in Merseyside?
Fire and rescue services from across the country gathered at Aintree in Liverpool to see the new multi million pound home of the National Resilience Centre of Excellence, where services from across the country can train...
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Police chiefs warn violence against women and girls is now a ‘national emergency’?
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Ambulance service introduces VR to train incident commanders
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is using VR technology to provide its incident commanders with an immersive training experience to test their knowledge, skills and decision making in a realistic environment...
Regulator levies hefty fine on BT after 999 outage
Ofcom has fined BT ￡17.5m for being ill-prepared to respond to a catastrophic failure of its emergency call handling service last summer, where over a ten hour period it failed to connect over 12,000 999 callers to the emergency services...
IN DEPTH
Mobile electronic patient records for ambulances deliver efficient care on the frontline
In the dynamic and high-pressure environment of emergency services, every second counts. OneResponse by Dedalus , is a mobile EPR system, designed specifically for ambulance services in the UK, that enables paramedics to access and enter critical patient data on the go.
The impact of hotspot policing: reducing crime, one neighbourhood at a time
Bruce Clark , Senior Product Manager, NEC Software Solutions explores the impact of hotspot policing and how police forces across the UK are continually seeking innovative strategies...
WEEKEND READING
What minority ethnic police officers face on the job: and how to fix policing culture
The 2022 Casey review highlighted deep-seated racism, sexism, and homophobia in the Met Police, yet recent data indicates these issues are worsening. Associate Professor Tara Lai Quinlan calls for a national strategy...
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