Emergency Services: Legislation, Roles, Planning, and JESIP

This project report delves into the crucial roles and responsibilities of emergency services, encompassing police, fire, NHS, and military, within the framework of current legislation. It outlines the legal foundations such as the Policing and Crime Act 2017, Fire and Rescue Act 2004, and Civil Contingencies Act 2004, emphasizing their impact on service delivery and accountability. The report explores the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP), analyzing the coordinated efforts of various agencies during major incidents, highlighting the importance of the M/ETHANE model for information sharing and effective response. It examines the planning steps essential for incident management, including initial response, consolidation, recovery, and restoration phases. Furthermore, the project includes a discussion on real-world emergency scenarios and the significance of post-incident reviews to enhance future responses. The conclusion stresses the importance of collective action and continuous improvement in emergency service management to safeguard public safety and well-being. This report, contributed by a student, is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools for students.

PROJECT
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Outline the current legislation for Emergency services covering the roles and responsibility of
Police, Fire, NHS and Military...............................................................................................3
Analyse who has responsibilities when responding the emergency incidents based upon
JESIP......................................................................................................................................4
Explain the different roles that the public services agencies play during a major incident based
on JESIP and working framework..........................................................................................5
Identify and assess the main planning steps and its importance that need to be taken into
consideration when responding to an incident based on JESIP.............................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Emergency services have been defined as public organisation whose specific job is to
take a quick and certain action for dealing with emergency that may cause due to number of
events like fire, natural disaster, chemical spills, pandemics or any accidents (Alnaggar and
Andersson, 2015). Emergency services may include police, fire brigade or ambulance services.
Proper public service and response are required in improving the physical and mental status of
such crisis victims. Home Office Emergency is the government selected option which provide
quick services of police, ambulance, fire in United Kingdom. Response Recovery Department
deals with rendering public health services to those individual who happened to have faced an
accident and now require proper response and treatment for getting better. The report will focus
on different roles of emergency responders along with explaining the value of planning
preparedness in emergency incidents. The report will further elaborate real world emergency
accidents and will discuss how such emergencies can be managed by public services.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Outline the current legislation for Emergency services covering the roles and responsibility of
Police, Fire, NHS and Military
There are different current legislations for emergency services which are highly required
in improving the status of people who are being suffering form any incident and it also outlines
the roles and responsibilities of police, NHS, fire and military during emergency. Policing and
Crime Act, 2017 has been established by UK government to make positive amendments in
governing fires rescue services and further helps in reforming the servicing of police. These
changes have been observed to alleviate efficiency and public confidence as well as maximise
local accountability (Portela and et.al., 2015). The main provision will be extended by placing
the work of police, ambulance and fire services together where the police have to take charge for
rescuing fire victims as soon as possible. The legislation has also reformed the disciplinary
system and police complaints for making surety that public has full confidence on their
capability. The role of police here is to make sure that they enhance their accountability as well
as transparency in their work. Fire and Rescue Act 2004 in UK has been developed to make sure
that fore and rescue authority are highly promoting fire protection in their area. They are
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considered to safeguard the necessary services, equipments and personnel, they also have to a
make sure that proper steps have been taken to limit the damage and take instant actions by
saving the life of victims and ensuing that no major injury have occurred. The Civil
Contingencies Act 2004 demands NHS organisation's to demonstrate effective way through
which they can efficiently deal with emergencies and sudden epidemics while regulating quality
servicing. The act further identifies the clear responsibilities and duties for those who are
primarily or extensively involved in preparing against emergencies and also response at local
level. The role of NHS bodies or organisation is to prepare widely for all possible events or
incident which might occur at any pointy of time (Rossi Heyi and Scullino, 2017). Defence
Nuclear Emergency Response, has been founded by Ministry defence of United Kingdom for
responding effectively during an incident which may include terrorist attack or any nuclear
assets. The key responsibility of military is to promote safe operation and to render post incident
recovery measures as well as responses for eliminating the pain of victims. The resources
provided to military are some key assets which can be applied to provided to people at time of
accidents like chemical spills, bomb attacks and many more.
Analyse who has responsibilities when responding the emergency incidents based upon JESIP.
Joint Emergency Services Interoperability was founded in 2012 which aims to provide
proper training and exercise for working together so as to deal with upcoming complex accidents
for the purpose of saving lives of as many as possible. The main vision of JESIP is to ensure
collective working as much as possible for dealing with all kinds of incidents. The
responsibilities of police, ambulance and fire are considered important in dealing with sudden
accidents. The responsibilities of various organisation dealing with incident may vary depending
upon their nature of accident as well as their handling (Ice, 2015). The police have been found to
actually take the duty of managing as well as coordinating several roles in complex or large
accidents. The police are the ones who gets instantly informed due to nay road accidents, any
attacks or any crime which is related in endangering a person life. During such emergencies
police make their thorough investigation and ensures that all victims associated with accident are
in hospitals and getting proper care and support. The additional role of such services are to
protect as well as safeguard the the scene of attack or crime so that no contamination may occur
in the relevant evidences. They make reports on how man why the accident took place at the first
place and evaluate few ways through which such incidents do not occur in future. The main
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priority of such members are to protect the public in all possible cases by rendering quality of
help. The servicing of ambulance is also considered very necessary because they are the ones
who take such victims to hospitals or service centres for ensuring that their examination or
treatments gets started. These services should be always right on time because during accidents
the life of person are already at high stakes and if they ambulance do not gets at right time then it
may lead in life threatening episode (Fatima and et.al., 2017). The role of fireman are also high
as per JESIP because they are the ones who lead their life in danger for safeguarding other life.
Fire may get caught by any reason and such incident in very common in UK, thus their services
are very essential to make protect people from getting any major injury. The collective work of
police, fire and ambulance services should be maintained and ordered in most effective way for
ensuring that no accidents becomes major.
Explain the different roles that the public services agencies play during a major incident based on
JESIP and working framework.
Several roles of public services are essentially required during major accident events. The
type of incidents involves what king of support and servicing will be provided to them. Such
public services are notified during an incident and soon whole joint working team are arranged
for putting everything in peace and making sure at victims are getting good quality of treatment.
Emergency service control rooms are considered as best place to keep a check and evaluate
multiple incidents are various places or at common location. During early phase of accident it
usually take a certain amount of time period for operational structure as well as available
resources. Such practice lay high pressure on control rooms and on initial responders. At such
situation it Is not essential that all resources are at sufficient amount or may be data or relevant
information are not available at that time (Reuter, Amelunxen and Moi, 2016). The public
services render full support for emergency services and provide care for broad community. They
uses the available resources and plan various ways to mitigate the negative outcomes of
emergency on community as well as on victim's life. The responses are coordinated by different
organisation so that they get possible treatment methods and medications can be provided
collectively to ensure that they get access to all required needs. Local authorities, ambulance,
fires services, highway agencies, rescue guards, police authorities, coast guards all are statutory
public service agencies which are extensively working in managing the after as well as currents
effects of emergencies on society. Non statutory agencies are also there which have similar role
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in eliminating the negative issues in accident and making the health of such victim better. Based
on JESIP, such services help in fighting with huge fires, they immediately goes at such location
with fire brigades for lowering the chance of any major misshapenness. They instantly remove
all the combustible material from such places so that the risk of catching big fire can be
controlled. These services are so potential that they give better advices and suggestions on health
and safety at the particular scene so that the life of victims are highly managed (Santos, Lima and
Zucatti, 2016). These services use specific kind of equipments which efficaciously assist in
rescuing as well as searching causalities from dangerous location for instance due to major
earthquakes.
Identify and assess the main planning steps and its importance that need to be taken into
consideration when responding to an incident based on JESIP.
Proper planning step and management is highly required while responding to a incident.
The M/ETHANE Model has been used by JESIP which render a common and highly managed
structure to responders as well as control rooms which helps in sharing information. Each
responder agencies are asked to send M/ETHANE message to control room as soon as they. The
data which are received by such message includes date and time of incident. This is followed by
location of accident and what kind of incident has been taken place like any road accidents or
natural calamity. What potential hazards are determined and what can be the best route to get
access to services. After collecting all such issues what and how many emergency responders
will be acquired on scene. Broad steps which are considered during major incident are initial
response, consolidation phase, recovery phase and restoration. During emergency initial
response, the role of responders is to safeguards the life of people are some property from the
effect of incident. Such individuals are trained enough to handle such kind of situations. The
consolidation phase requires to take victims in nearby hospital or service centres immediately.
Such phase is followed by recovery phase which include in providing immense and essential
health and care support to such individual for speeding up their recovery as soon as possible
(Oorni and Goulart, 2017). Restoration phase actually comprises of restoring the life of victim to
their normal routine by indulging them in fun activities and conducting meditation programmes
to relax their soul and mind. Mitigation measures are basically applied in lowering the loss of life
as well as valuable property by reducing the impact of emergencies or disasters.
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TASK 2
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CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that, emergency services are very essential for
managing the accident in most organised way so that the victims can receive good quality of
support and care and they can continue living their life. Different legislation are required for
responding and receiving the accidental issues by police, NHS, military and fire. JESIP is
important and consider that every members must work collectively to manage the accident. Post
incidental review helps in improving the management of accident and future responses to public
services. At 2018, Britain and Ireland heat wave was a natural disaster which lead into loss of
economy, tourism and adversely affected health.
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