| UK police looking for volunteers for major Casualty Bureaux exercise
West Midlands Police has been given the responsibility to create, manage and report on a National Casualty Bureau Exercise. This brief originates from the various recommendations arising from the London 7/7 bombings. The date for the exercise will be Tuesday 13th November and is likely to be between 0800 and 2000hrs. The brief is to create three paper-feed disaster scenarios that would cause a total of at least 600 fatalities, together with a large number of other casualties. The scenarios will be fed into Police forces at various points during the exercise, in order that the loading of the Casualty Bureau telephone and software network can be increased. The main requirement of the brief is the delivery of a high volume of calls into the Casualty Bureaux. The majority of these calls will be by telephone from pre-prepared scripts and range from the concerned relatives reporting missing persons through to general enquiries, media calls and the inevitable odd nuisance call. In order to deliver this exercise people are needed to make orchestrated sequences of telephone calls in to the Casualty Bureaux system. West Midlands Police are now actively seeking volunteers, or organisations, that are prepared to assist in making these calls. Each caller will be provided with scripts and each call will take around six minutes. If your organisation is able to help with any number of calls, please contact Chris Green (chrisgreen@hbosplc.com) or the BCI Secretariat (bci@thebci.org) as soon as possible. The benefits for organisations in supporting this exercise are: To give your staff some experience of the Bureaux, which they might need to contact in a real crisis To demonstrate your organisation's commitment to corporate social responsibility, through helping the police rehearse a public service.
•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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