Training & Exercises
Recommendations related to Training & Exercises
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SIA first responder training for all licensees
The Security Industry Authority should take urgent steps to devise a training scheme in first responder interventions that educates all of those licensed by it, both existing licensees and new …
Review analgesia deployment for firearms officers
The College of Policing and Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review whether firearms officers should be deployed with analgesia and trained in its use, as part of providing Care Under …
Resolve paramedic-driver shortage in mass casualties
A significant issue in a mass casualty situation is that all of those paramedics who have arrived in ambulances may be required for the treatment of casualties, so that no …
Event healthcare staff trained in first responder interventions
The Department of Health and Social Care and the Care Quality Commission should consider introducing guidelines to ensure that all event healthcare staff who work at events are trained in …
Enhanced care training for HART personnel
The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider ensuring that there is further training of HART personnel so that at least one member …
Regular Major Incident training for ambulance commanders
The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should ensure that all ambulance commanders receive regular Major Incident training. The training should include training on …
Consider freeze-dried plasma for HART operatives
The Department of Health and Social Care, the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, the College of Paramedics and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider whether all Hazardous Area Response Team …
Integrate air ambulances into Major Incident response
The Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, ambulance service trusts, Air Ambulances UK, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and JESIP should consider what staff …
Train BTP Inspectors as Bronze Commanders
British Transport Police should ensure that all its Inspectors are trained to undertake the Bronze Commander role in the event of a Major Incident
Maintain radio communications during Major Incidents
The emergency services should prepare, train and exercise for how they will maintain effective radio communications between emergency responders on the ground, commanders and control rooms, during the response to …
First responder training for all police officers
The Home Office and College of Policing should ensure that all newly recruited and existing police officers and all frontline police staff, such as Police Community Support Officers, are trained …
Assess quality of first responder training
The Home Office and the College of Policing should regularly assess and appraise the training on first responder interventions provided by each police service to ensure that it is of …
Robust debrief systems for multi-agency exercises
The Home Office and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities should ensure that there exist robust national and local systems and sufficient resources to make sure that the …
National systems to record lessons from exercises
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government should ensure that there exist robust national and local systems to identify and record the lessons learned from all multi-agency exercises and …
Train BTP Sergeants in Bronze Commander role
British Transport Police should ensure that all its Sergeants are trained in what is required of a Bronze Commander in the event of a Major Incident. This will help to …
Force Duty Officer comprehensive training course
The Home Office, College of Policing and Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should ensure that all police officers to be appointed to the role of Force Duty Officer or Force Incident …
High fidelity training for emergency responders
The Home Office, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider introducing the use of regular 'high fidelity …
Awareness of specialist capabilities across services
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and all local resilience …
Use recording equipment during exercises
The Home Office, the College of Policing, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and the Fire Service College should ensure that, in the course of exercises, such equipment is used by …
Training on use of recording equipment
The Home Office, the College of Policing, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and the Fire Service College should ensure that training is given to all who are issued with such …
BTP coordination with Home Office police services
British Transport Police should work with the Home Office police services with which it shares policing responsibilities at or for a particular location: a. to agree which police service has …
Train all firefighters in first responder interventions
The National Fire Chiefs Council and the Fire Service College should establish a scheme for ensuring that all firefighters are trained in first responder interventions.
Ten Second Triage training for frontline staff
The team led by Philip Cowburn has devised a tool that is designed for use by a wide range of emergency responders in a mass casualty situation. It is known …
Firearms officer training on Operation Plato
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and the College of Policing should ensure that all firearms officers, including firearms commanders, receive adequate training in Operation Plato, including in what such a declaration …
Unarmed officer training on Operation Plato
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and the College of Policing should ensure that all unarmed frontline police officers receive training in what Operation Plato is and what will be expected of …
Adequate first responder training time for police
Each police service must ensure that adequate time is allocated to the training of all police officers and frontline police staff in first responder interventions.
Cross-border ambulance training and exercising
All ambulance service trusts should undertake training and exercising with neighbouring ambulance service trusts to ensure that cross-border support is efficient and effective.
Nationally accredited Force Duty Officer training
Given the broad command responsibilities that the Force Duty Officer or Force Incident Manager will have in the early stages of the response to a Major Incident, the Home Office …
Joint GMFRS/NWFC incident log review procedures
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and North West Fire Control should conduct a joint review of the circumstances in which it is appropriate for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue …
Train GMFRS commanders in operational discretion
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service should ensure that its commanders are adequately trained in the use of operational discretion.
Major Incident training for North West Fire Control staff
All North West Fire Control staff should be trained on the best practices for responding to a Major Incident, as identified through its participation in exercises. North West Fire Control …
LRF oversight of lessons from exercises and incidents
Local resilience forums should establish procedures to ensure that they oversee the process of identifying the lessons to be learned from major exercises, or serious incidents, in their areas, and …
Create centralised NaCTSO training library
NaCTSO should create a centralised library of training materials.
Train NWAS commanders in operational discretion
North West Ambulance Service should ensure that its commanders are adequately trained in the use of operational discretion.
Include non-specialist ambulance personnel in exercising
North West Ambulance Service should ensure that non specialist ambulance personnel are involved in multi agency exercising
Review mass casualty response capacity
Ambulance service trusts should review their capacity to respond to a mass casualty incident. That should include an assessment of whether they have an adequate number of trained specialist personnel …
North West Fire Control regular multi-agency exercising
North West Fire Control should ensure that it regularly tests how it operates, by ensuring that its staff participate in regular exercises and practical tests. These should include multi-agency exercises.
Allocate best-trained operators to Major Incident roles
North West Fire Control should review how it allocates the best-trained and most suitable Control Room Operators to roles during a Major Incident. It should consider whether it is beneficial …
NWFC involvement in multi-agency exercises
North West Fire Control should take steps to ensure that it is involved in multi-agency exercises, particularly those that test mobilisation and the response to a Major Incident in line …
Firearms officers trained in Care Under Fire
The College of Policing and Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should ensure that all firearms officers are trained to understand that, while their primary role in an Operation Plato situation is …
Improve police training record systems
The College of Policing should consider whether the current process for maintaining and storing training records for all police officers can be improved. That should include assessing the following: a. …
Control room trauma care guidance for 999 callers
The College of Policing, the Fire Service College and National Fire Chiefs Council should consider devising training packages for operators within control rooms, to enable them to give guidance on …