Interagency When Responding To An Emergency Incident

When Emergency Services respond to an incident they have a plan in which they follow this means there is very little room for errors. The purpose of a major incident plan is to prepare all of the Emergency Services,
it allows them to know what what their role is and ultimately the services work together.


How does the Police Service assist other services?

• They cordon off the area where the incident has taken place- if they didn't do this the fire and ambulance service would be obstructed to getting to the incident which cause loss of lives.
• They control the media coverage-if they didn't take control all journalists would be in the way which would prevent the ambulance service and fire service doing their jobs.

How does the Fire Service assist other Services?

• If the incident is a road traffic collision they set about to rescuing any person who is trapped in the vehicle- if they didn't do this they person may develop further injuries and possible even die.
• one fire officer supports any person who is trapped, holding their neck a certain way to prevent further damage.

How does the Ambulance Services assist other Services?

• Deals with treating the patient there and then as they see fit, they try to prevent loss of life so that the incident is not classified as murder.

Overall it is important that all the Services work together as they all specialise in certain areas and if you use them all together it make the incident allot easier to resolve.
it is also important as it build team cohesion across the services which'll mean they communicate and respond better.