Emergency Services

The LAS and the MPS review their protocols and policies to ensure that their operators can identify FSG calls (as defined by the LFB) and pass them to the LFB …

Each emergency service must communicate the declaration of a Major Incident to all other Category 1 Responders as soon as possible.

On the declaration of a Major Incident clear lines of communication must be established as soon as possible between the control rooms of the individual emergency services.

A single point of contact should be designated within each control room to facilitate such communication.

A “METHANE” message should be sent as soon as possible by the emergency service declaring a Major Incident.

Steps be taken to investigate the compatibility of the LFB systems with those of the MPS and the LAS with a view to enabling all three emergency services' systems to …

Steps be taken to ensure that the airborne datalink system on every NPAS helicopter observing an incident which involves one of the other emergency services defaults to the National Emergency …

The LFB, the MPS, the LAS and the London local authorities all investigate ways of improving the collection of information about survivors and making it available more rapidly to those …