Emergency Management Principles
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How emergency incidentsare managed by the publicservices
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1P5 Principles of effective emergency incident response ............................................................1P6 Recovery stage following an emergency incident.................................................................2M3 Need for debriefs and reviewing to inform future planning and responding.......................4P7 examples of emergency incidents based on UK or international...........................................5M4 Investigate role of public services in real life situation........................................................5D2Evaluating a particular real-world emergency incident,........................................................6CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTIONEmergency incidents includes emergencies like earthquake, volcano, explosions, medicalemergencies , bomb attacks etc. The present study is done on Metropolitan police service of UK,that is responsible for enforcement of law in Metropolitan police district which has 43000 ofemployees in its organisation , it also manages terrorist attacks and a breif discussion is done onrecovery of those natural disasters and terrorists attacks or incidents likeUK floods, Shorehamair show plane crash ,Parsons Green terrorist attack,Grenfell Tower fire, by public serviceorganisation etc.In addition to this future plans and role of public service organisation is alsodiscussed ,also a briefing is done on real life incident(Bach and Bordogna, 2016).P5 Principles of effective emergency incident response Following are the principles of effective emergency incident response-Multi-agency response: This principle states that there should be coordination betweentwo or more agency if disaster happen at large scale generally it is done between civillianand military agencies so that immediate response can be given to the disasters, also theaim of multi agency coordination is to organise all the resources damaged at the time ofincidents. There are many functions performed by multi agency coordination system likeprioritization, allocation of resources that are critical , supporting ancilliary activitiesrelated to incidents, coordinating with officials that are appointed for the incident andcoordinating with information required at the time of emergency(Bach and Bordogna,2016).Single agency: gold, silver, bronze -There are many incidents which only requiressingle agency to response like Metropolitan Police Service , in UK there is a hierarchyused to operate emergency service that is Gold, Silver and Bronze the other economistsand practitionors also called it as strategic, tactical and operational structure which is thechain of command , though it does not require to follow from top to bottom. Here thegold commander is the controller of all the resources present at incident , on the otherhand silver commander also known as tactical commander follows the direction given bygold commander,duty of silver commander is to implement task given by goldcommander and set the direction for bronze commander, further bronze commander aredirectly in contact with resources at incident , it will work with its members at thedestination(Pollitt, Birchall and Putman, 2016).1
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