University Report: Emergency Response Systems in the UK

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
LO3 investigation of emergency incidents that are managed by the public services......................4
P5 Explanation of the principles of effective emergency incident response...............................4
P6 Evaluation of the recovery stage following an emergency incident.......................................7
M3 Demonstrate the need for debriefs and reviewing to inform future planning and responding
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LO4 review of the public service response to real world emergency incidents............................10
P7 Identify a range of examples of emergency incident, both UK-based and international.....10
M4 Investigate the role of the public services in a particular real-world emergency incident..11
D2 Evaluate a particular real-world emergency incident, making reference to the type of
incident, actions taken, collaborative agency working involved, and lessons learned..................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................14
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Introduction
United Kingdom is one of the leading countries who are very much concerned about their
people’s security and their health. The emergency response system of the United Kingdom is
very much strong and very much efficient (Ewton, 2014). Though much security breach has
happened in the past few years in the United Kingdom, many casualties are also happened due to
the many emergency situations such as fire and terrorist attack both external and internal as well
as the natural disasters like earthquakes, mudslides, hurricanes tornados etc. There is a skillful
response team that is also appointed by the government to secure safety of the civilians of the
United Kingdom such as army, fire brigade, ambulance, navy, police services and the most elite
SO15. The SO15 is the group of armed officers who are mainly deals with the high class hostile
situations, terrorism attacks and the situations which are created by the armed criminals of
United Kingdom. The report is actually made to assess the United Kingdom’s emergency
response systems and how the agencies can detect and identify an emergencies such as domestic
and also international. The solution or the recovery process is also assessed in the report. The
civilians’ safety and the legal issues such as the civil contingencies act 2004 are also assessed in
the report. The report consists of much prevention and many effective principles that can help the
civilians to know about the steps that they prevent or can stay safe from the emergency
situations. The need of scrutiny of the situations by the politicians and the community is also
overviewed in the following report (Hogarth et al. 2016).
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LO3 investigation of emergency incidents that are managed by the public services
The public services of the United Kingdom are very much efficient in doing the emergency
management response work. The United Kingdom government also has managed to give
assurance of security and the safety to the citizens of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom
public services has many departments in investigating the emergency situations such as the fire
break out, terrorist attacks and the domestic armed attacks. The internal and the external
emergency factors that are very much concerned in the United Kingdom, is handled by the public
services as well as the local; emergency response services (Farris and McCreight, 2014).
P5 Explanation of the principles of effective emergency incident response
The public services of United Kingdom are very much relied on some principles that the
organization maintain to work on the emergency services of the United Kingdom. The United
Kingdom government follows the principles that offer the hostages an effective solution in
responding the crisis situation or the emergency situation of the country. The organizations that
provide the emergency situation response will also follow some certain principles to work
properly in the moment of the effective emergency incident response. The principles are properly
discussed below.
Anticipation
The organizations such as police, army and navy should anticipate the probability of the
emergency or the crisis situations. The essential steps should be taken by the organizations to
prevent the initiation of the emergency. The management team of the organization should also
work on the emergency situation after thinking about the consequences of the steps and the
response regarding the safety of the civilians (Anderson, 2015).
Preparedness
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All the workers of the organizations which are related to the public service should be prepared
for any kind of situations rather than the situations of emergencies. The workers of the
organizations who are related to the emergency situation management should know their proper
responsibilities as well as role in responding the emergency situation or giving hostage security.
Subsidiarity
The connection between the lower level workers and the higher authority is very much important
in this principle. To give a proper response to the emergency services the bridge of connection
between the higher authority and the root level workers plays a major role in it. The low level
workers will have to inform the higher level authorities in every step of the plan implementation
regarding the emergency response. The local organizations even can build block to help the
response of the emergency situations (Henderson and Pandey, 2013).
Direction
The purposes of the steps or all the work should have clarity. This can also maintained by the
strategic aim of the workers of the organization of emergency situations response. The focus of
the work should be given priority. The proper direction of the group should be identified and the
identification procedure should be done in together. The common purpose or focus of the
organization that are worked in emergency incident response can be one of the principles
regarding the response that assure safety of the civilians.
Information
Giving proper information is another important aspect of the emergency incident response of the
critical situations. The relatives of the hostages and many people want information of the
emergency situations of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom official disaster management
or the emergency situation management has to understand how much information can be shared
to them. The decision making of the management must have to ensure the safety of the civilians
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of the United Kingdom. The management has to hide and at the same time the management has
to publish the information that is better for all the people (Henderson, 2013).
Integration
The co ordination between the workers of different levels can put up the coherent effort to build
up a block in the moment of emergency.
Cooperation
The cooperating efforts of the organizations can build up a resilient force that can help to prevent
any kind of emergency situations.
Continuity
The emergency response of any kind of situations should focus on the functions of the
organization. The larger scale problems can be solved in fast tempo and the circumstances are
also examined.
Single agency
The single agency management deals with the one factor and that factor is very much cause of
the emergency occurrence. The scale of the occurrence is divided in three parts such as bronze,
silver and gold. The gold denotes the highest level of emergency where the bronze is considered
as the low level of emergency and the silver is not so much high scale of emergency (Seyedin et
al. 2013).
Multi-agency
Multi agency is referred with the three factors such as the strategic, tactical and operational. The
strategic response of the emergency can be detected in the response of the situations.
Strategic Coordinating Group (SCG)
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Strategic coordinating group is mainly deals with the responsibilities of multi agency
management that can mainly build a strategy to coordinate between the higher and lower level
authority.
Science and Technical Advice Cell (STAC).
The science and technical advice cell can give the emergency response system management the
technical support and advice that can help them to prevent the emergency response system
(Anderson, 2015).
Media
The media are an important variable of the emergency management system. The media have to
be dealt with precision and skills that the media can’t spread wrong news in the situation of the
emergency.
P6 Evaluation of the recovery stage following an emergency incident
After the damage has been done by the emergency situations such as natural disaster like
earthquake hurricane or any kind of terrorism attack in the United Kingdom, the recovery system
plays a huge role in reconstructing the place where the problem has taken place. This
reconstruction can give the state or the country stability. Most emergency situations can give the
city where the place of occurrence is situated a grave economical loss that the government has to
recover to gain the stability at the place so; for regaining the source of economy the government
uses their management system to overcome from the situation (Halpern et al 2014).
Rebuilding
First of all the structure has to be made to have the building where the process or the system that
is contained previously can be installed. The rebuilding process is built by the builders and the
other labours to fix the damage that had done by the emergency situation.
Restoring
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The restoration process has to be the next steps of the damage management or rather than the
recovery process of the emergency situation. The main purpose is to install the systems and
machinery as before the emergency situation. The restoration process can initiate the system and
the work in the place of the emergency has taken place (Boyd et al. 2014).
Rehabilitating
Rehabilitation system can help the process and workforce of the place in a normal manner. The
rehabilitation also consists of branding, promoting and the advertisement issues. The
rehabilitation is generated with the help of the government. The government sometimes sent
some aid to rehabilitation of the place where the emergency has taken place. Mainly the
objective is to make the situations normal as it was before the emergency situation (Pearce,
2014).
Categories of recovery
There are many categories of the recovery of emergency situations. The recovery can be done
with many aspects such as regaining of the human resource, the economical aid, infrastructural
help ajnd also making the environment normal. The categories are discussed below Thompson et
al. 2014.
Humanitarian
The human resource has been regained during this kind of recovery. The old people are
reappointed and the new recruitments are done. This can help the place to regain workforce and
stability. The efficiency can also be increased in the humanitarian section of the new recruits.
Economic
The economical aspect is very much important in terms of the development of the place. Not
only the government but also many organizations and the local and other citizens sent
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economical aid according to their capability. The economical help can be a catalyst in
redeveloping the structure and system inside the place where it took place.
Infrastructure
The outer structure which is damaged during the emergency situation can be re-established for
the betterment of the people. The re establishment of the structure can be the best way of
redevelopment and redesign.
Environmental
The environmental surrounding has to be freed from the terror that is generated by the
emergency. This kind of redevelopment or recovery can be done with help of the government
and some celebrated personalities. The neighbourhood people have to be very supportive in the
environmental recovery. The media and the politicians have to take some steps to do this kind of
recovery.
Recovery Coordinating Group (RCG)
Mainly recovery is done by the government and their respective departments but many local
authorities are also come up with financial aid and human resources to help the cause of
redevelopment of the place where the emergency has taken place. Many NGOs also come up
with some help. These groups are called recovery coordinating group.
M3 Demonstrate the need for debriefs and reviewing to inform future planning and
responding
The debriefing and the documentation of every incident are needed to document that the spaces
and the flaws of the systems get detected rather than identified. The future planning is very much
important as the flaws can be corrected and the plans are according to that (Chen, 2015).
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LO4 review of the public service response to real world emergency incidents
Public service response is very much affective in every emergency situation. The real world
emergency situations like the Shorehamair plane crash in United Kingdom and the fire break out
in Grenfell tower and also some international incidents like Paris terrorist attacks and Bastille
Day terror attack. In this cases the public service response has worked tremendously well and the
development and also the management in the moment of crisis is very much appreciable.
P7 Identify a range of examples of emergency incident, both UK-based and international.
The United Kingdom has seen many incidents in last few weeks as many failure of the
government department cause many emergency situations that have shown the United Kingdom
that the flaws and the spaces in the administrative sections of the United Kingdom. The other
countries are also faced same kind of difficulties and obstructions in the flow of the country.
Some terrorist groups also marked them as well as United Kingdom as their main enemy so they
indulged in creating emergency situations in different countries as well as the United Kingdom.
These problems mainly are causing some problems across the globe (Park et al. 2016).
United Kingdom based on emergency incidents
The first emergency incident that has to be discussed is the Grenfell tower incident. On 14th June
2017 one of the most fierce fire incidents has occurred when at 1:00 am a 23 storied building
namely Grenfell tower has set out in fire by malfunctioning of a fridge freezer in an apartment of
the fourth floor. The fire started from there and spread in every floor of the building. The fire
brigade has arrived at the spot but couldn’t save the building (Wachira and Smith, 2013).
The next emergency incident that has to be discussed is the Shorehamair plane crash. The plane
crash has taken place in an air show. The plain has crashed in a place where many people that are
present there are the victim of the crash. 11 casualties are found after the crash and the fire
brigade and the damage control workers are saved many lives.
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International emergency incidents
The emergency incident that has happened and shook the whole world was the Paris terrorist
attack. One of the most tragic incidents has taken place in the heart of France. On 13th
November 2017 a gunmen has fired gunshots to the random civilians and with him a suicide
bomber hit a concert hall full of audiences. This blast reported 130 casualties and also hundreds
of French people wounded. this attack is planned and contracted by the IS group.
The next incident is also reported in the France but now this is not in the capital of the country
but in Nice where a truck driver who was celebrating Bastille Day has ran over 86 people with a
truck. This domestic act of violence also places a huge impact on the people of the France (Adini
and Peleg, 2013).
M4 Investigate the role of the public services in a particular real-world emergency incident.
The public service has done a great job in saving millions of life. Many attacks are preplanned
and many are the accidents so, the accidents are never been prevented but it has been properly
recovered or rather can be said handled with skill and master class.
United Kingdom
The fire brigade of the London has arrived soon and many engines are reached there to
extinguish the fire. Many people are saved by the fire brigade workers as well as some local
authorities had helped there. The government, builder and the local groups help to recover the
situation
The fire brigade and the damage control officials of that show came very quickly at the spot to
pull as many people from the ruins of the plane. The hospital authorities also play a major role in
saving millions of life.
International
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The fire brigade and the police workers and the health officials play a major role. The Interpol
has helped to find out the root cause of the blast and the hospitals sent many ambulances to save
many lives.
The police have caught the truck drivers and the hospitals and the locals have managed to save of
the people from that accident (Alexander, 2015).
D2 Evaluate a particular real-world emergency incident, making reference to the type of
incident, actions taken, collaborative agency working involved, and lessons learned.
Emergency type lesson Action plan
Grenfell tower incident The fire management system
is not so good in the
apartments.
The fire alarm and exits are
made so advanced and
systematic as well as the
electrical appliances.
Paris terror attack Security system is not up to
the mark
The airport immigration and
visa system got reconstructed
and the security got much
strong
Shorehamair plane crash. The plane crash authority has
lack of experience in damage
controls
The air shows are organized
with safety precautions
(Nisbet, and Chen, 2015).
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