Legislation and Roles of Emergency Services in Integrated Emergency Management

Integrated emergency
management

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Legislation related to emergency services with the roles and responsibilities of Police, Fire,
NHS and Military........................................................................................................................3
Responsibilities related to emergency incident’s based upon JESIP...........................................4
Different roles played by public service agencies during the time of major incident.................5
Main planning steps taken into consideration when responding to event...................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Emergency management can be defined as analysing and managing of the resources and
duty of care in order to keep control over all the humanitarian emergencies and also mitigating
the risk which is related to the emergency. It is basically being done in order to reduce the effect
of hazards involving disasters. Assignment will focus on Flixborough disaster an explosion at
chemical plant. Present report will lay emphasis on current legislation for Emergency Services
covering the roles and responsibilities of Police, Fire, NHS and Military. It will Analyse who has
the responsibilities when responding the emergency incidents based upon JESIP. Report will also
explain the different roles that the public services agencies play during a major incident based on
JESIP and working framework.
TASK 1
Legislation related to emergency services with the roles and responsibilities of Police, Fire, NHS
and Military
It is the duty of police, Military and clinical care setting to provide safety and security to
people who have suffered from tragic incidents. There are various legislations which has been
implemented by United Kingdom government laying emphasis on roles and responsibilities of
police, fire, NHS and Military.
Civil contingencies act, 2004 has been implemented by the act of parliament that describes
the roles and responsibilities of various organization so that they can prepare for emergency
events that can hamper the quality of human life. It also provides NHS, police, military and fire
with the additional power which can be used in the most tragic incident at a large scale. This law
implies that all police forces needs to have most responsible officers so that they can perform at
their best when emergency calls from the public. Police force needs to have criminal
investigation department so that facts and figures related to tragedy can be analysed and
inspected by them. They can also have police specialist department so that tactical support can be
provided to public.
This act also lay emphasis on fire services that is being provided in United Kingdom during
the time of occurrence of event. FRS needs to have specialist fire officer. The main role of this
officer is to mobilise, control and command the ways that can assist public in overcoming from
this tragedy. The fire and Rescue services act, 2004 lays emphasis on the fire safety issues.
This department has the main responsibility to provide fire safety not only in organization but