responding to emergencys 1

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Kimberley Mortimer

For this assignment I described how the police force grade an emergency and identified their initial action, role and responsibilities. I also had to describe the importance of responding to emergency’s safely as well as identifying the statutory and voluntary agencies that may work together at a scene of an emergency incident, further more I had to explain the roles, responsibilities of the police, fire & rescue and the ambulance service attending an emergency incident    


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According to the  an emergency in the UK is defined as any event or situation which threatens damage to human welfare, the environment, or to the security of the United Kingdom. To be defined as an emergency, an event must also require response by the emergency services, hospitals or local authority to put in to place special arrangements.

Emergencies can therefore come in a number of forms, whether natural or human caused, challenge the normal delivery of emergency service, and have the potential to lead to loss of life. Examples of emergencies in the UK include the oil depot fire in Hemel-Hempstead in 2005, the bombings in London in 2005, or the flooding in Boscastle in 2004.

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The police grading criteria

The police receive an average of 350 emergency '999'calls every day. These are the highest priority and they aim to answer them within 10 seconds and get to an emergency incident, in an urban area, in ten minutes 20 minutes in a rural area. they also receive in the region of 2,700 non-emergency calls every day (one million every year). The challenge for our operators is to sort through all of these and match our response to the nature of the call, whether that call is about an ongoing knife attack or an enquiry about road ...

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