Emergency Services
With responsibilities that range from tackling anti-social behaviour to challenging serious organised crime and countering terrorism, UK police forces are highly motivated to use information technology if it can improve their operational effectiveness. The aerial photography, mapping, and height data which Getmapping offers is proving a valuable resource for a range of policing activities.
These activities include things such as:
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Command and control
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Call centre support
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Community safety portals
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Incident recording
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Accident reporting
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Scene of crime distance measurement
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Providing evidence
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Crime mapping and analysis
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Targeting of resources
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Neighbourhood policing
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Operational planning
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Control room briefings and white boarding
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Emergency and contingency planning
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Responding to disasters
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Counter terrorism
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Tracking of vehicles and people
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Surveillance
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Identifying escape routes and vantage points
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Training and simulation modelling
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Recent calls by the Government and opposition parties to make crime statistics maps available to the public has resulted in use of aerial photography to highlight clusters of crime activity. Expect to see more in 2009/10.
Fire and Rescue Services are also making use of aerial photography in their control centres to augment their site intelligence and inform the map.
Emergencies such as flooding, industrial accidents, outbreaks of infectious diseases (Foot and Mouth), or terrorist incidents all happen somewhere. When they do, the severity of their impact depends very much on the geographic context in which they take place. Having access to geographic information can be invaluable in all phases of emergency planning from risk assessment and preparation, through to response and recovery.
Applications of geographic information in emergency planning include:
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Using aerial photography to fill-in the ‘white space’ on maps
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Air photo interpretation
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Risk assessment
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Flood modelling and prediction
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Protecting critical infrastructure
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Managing cordons and exclusion zones
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Incident simulation and training
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Surveillance and monitoring
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Data sharing and coordination between agencies
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Communication with the public
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Local government is a major consumer of geographic information. Knowing what is where, is a basic prerequisite for effective planning and management of our town and countryside, and for delivering efficient public services. So not surprisingly, planners, highway engineers, and those
working with the environment have long been some of the heaviest local government users of maps and aerial photography. Today their ranks are being joined by a new breed of professionals
– emergency planners.......
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