Roy Wilsher Chief ExecutiveHertfordshire PCC

Police and Crime Commissioners: Civil Contingencies

Overview • Introduction of the Civil Contingencies Act • Creation & Role of Local Resilience Forums• National Co-ordination Advisory Framework• Strategic Co-ordinating Groups• Role of Politicians @ Major Incidents• CCA and the Strategic Policing Requirement• ACPO Civil Contingencies• Interoperability• PCC – Linking the Chain

Civil Contingencies Act 2004

• Replacement for pure “Civil Defence” legislation • Redefined the term “Emergency” • Created Local Resilience Forums • Concept of Subsidiarity

Local Resilience Forums • Integrated Emergency Management • Category 1 and 2 Responders – Cooperate and Share Information

• Duties of the LRF– Risk Assessment– Business Continuity Management – Emergency Planning– Warning and informing the Public– Advise and Assist Commercial & Voluntary sectors

CCA and the SPR • An identified National Threat :“ Civil emergencies defined as a Tier One risk in the National Security Risk Assessment requiring an aggregated response across police force boundaries”

• Application of the 5 C’s • National Level: Police should be prepared for a Major

Incident or Natural hazard which requires a national response

• Local Level: Response capability commensurate with the local Risk Assessment based on NSRA and NPA.

ACPO – Civil Contingencies

• National Policing Lead : DCC Charlie Hall • ACPO CC Work streams:– Disaster Victim Identification– Casualty Bureau– Business Continuity – Local Resilience Forums– Flooding– Nuclear Emergencies– Search and Rescue– Animal Disease

Buncefield 2005 – Command Structure

National Coordination Advisory Framework

Role of Politicians at a Major Incident

Interoperability

• Background : Justice Hallett et al • Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme• Aim :“To ensure that the blue light services are trained and exercised to work together as effectively at all levels of command in response to major or complex incidents so that as many lives as possible can be saved”

• Governance and Legacy

JESIP GovernanceMinisterial Oversight Board (6 monthly)

Chair - Home Secretary Theresa May

Government DepartmentsMinisters

Police, Fire & AmbulanceLynne Owens / Roy

Wilsher/Anthony Marsh

HMICCFRA

JESIPSRO – Craig Denholm

Strategic Board (Quarterly)Chair - Chief Fire Officer Roy Wilsher

Government DepartmentsDirectors

Police, Fire & AmbulanceLynne Owens, Roy

Wilsher, Anthony Marsh

JESIP SRO Craig DenholmDeputy SRO Jo Byrne

Local Government & Devolved Administrations

Representatives

Programme Board (Monthly)Chair - Senior Responsible Officer Craig Denholm

Government Departments Representatives

Police, Fire & AmbulanceDeputy SRO Jo Byrne,

Steve Hamm, Keith Prior

JESIP Senior Users & other team members as

required

Devolved Administrations Representatives

JESIP Workstreams

Doctrine & Organisation

Training & Exercise

Shared Situational Awareness

Operational Communications

What Will Success Look Like ?

Linking the Chain

JESIP PCC LRF

Questions ?