Chain Of Command

A Gold- Silver- Bronze command structure Is used by every service when it comes to responding to an emergency incident.

This Structure was created by the metropolitan police in 1985 after a big riot in north London when Police constable Keith blakelock was murdered

The Gold Command is overall in control of their organisations resources at the incident they won’t be on the site, but at a distant control room

Gold command formulate the strategy for dealing with the emergency incident

The Silver Commander is the senior member of the organisation at the scene, in charge of all their resources. They decide how to utilise these resources to achieve the strategy plan off the gold commander, they determine the tactics used.

A Bronze commander directly controls the organisations resources at the incidents and will be found with their staff working on the scene

Police primacy means that the police will be in ultimate charge of the incident over the other organisations who respond to the incident. There is an exception to this principle if the incident involves a fire or any other dangerous hazard, in which case the fire service will have overall charge of the area inside the inner cordon where fire fighting or rescue is taking place.