Interoperability Technology

What Technology?

NENA Conference Sept 18, 2012

D/Sgt Randy Henning

Large Scale Event Planning

G20, June 2010

Boots and Hearts Music Festival, Aug 2012

G20, TorontoPolice

Uniform Officers Bike Patrol Officers Intelligence Officers Marine Unit Plain Clothes

Officers Rapid Response

Team Officers Public Order Units

Emergency Services Toronto Fire Service Toronto EMS Durham EMS York EMS Peel EMS Border Patrol Secret Service Private Security

Public Order Units Toronto Police Service

(6 teams) York Regional Police

Service Durham Regional Police

Service Barrie Police Service Waterloo Police Service London Police Service Hamilton Police Service Peel Regional Police

Service

Saskatoon Police Service

Calgary Police Service (2 teams)

Edmonton Police Service

Montreal Police Service Cape Breton Police

Service Fredericton Police

Service St John’s Police Service

How to Communicate?•Major Incident Command Centre (MICC)

•Representatives from all areas•Ripple affect to units

•POU different channels•Commanders on MICC channel•Members on separate channel

Lessons Learned Delay in response Officers could monitor MICC Span and control to large Memorization of unit numbering

system

Boots and Hearts Music FestivalBowmanville, 2012

Police Public Order Unit Bicycle Officers Traffic Officers

Other Services Durham EMS Clarington Fire

Services Knights on Guard Source Security Boots and Hearts

Organizers St Johns Ambulance

Incident Management SystemCommand Post

Representatives from all agencies Individual communications systems Span and Control Assist with Three Tiered Response

Incident Commander

Police Source Securit

y

Knights on

GuardEMS Fire

Boots and

Hearts

Public Order Traffic Camping

Patrol

EgressIngress

St. Johns Ambulance

Lessons Learned Overall no real communication issues All agencies need to “speak same

language” All agencies need to understand

system Importance of having

trained/experienced dispatchers

Questions?

Comments?