In this second episode led by The Emergency Planning Society the team look at the UK’s national resilience capability and the growing need for skilled emergency planners. They talk about how to find practical solutions for improving interoperability across agencies and communities.

Speakers:

• Beverley Griffiths, Buckinghamshire New University, host
• Stephen Arundell, Emergency Planning Society
• David McClory, Slough Borough Council
• Chris Shuttleworth, Lancashire Resilience Forum

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As more police forces start to use live facial recognition technology, we hear from two forces who are early in their plans for implementation. Andrew Hendry from Police Scotland and Leanne Moorehouse from Devon and Cornwall Police join Rich Preston in this episode to talk about the considerations, practicalities and ethics behind future deployment.

Speakers:

• Rich Preston, host
• Andrew Hendry, Police Scotland
• Leanne Moorehouse, Devon and Cornwall Police

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This time, we bring you a shorter episode from the show, featuring Lucy Macleod, a borough commander for the London Fire Brigade. Lucy shares the findings from her recent postgraduate research into bariatric evacuation and rescue during high impact events in London. With specialist procedures and techniques required, Lucy looks at the capacity in place to ensure rescues are carried out with dignity.

Speakers:

• Joy Flanagan, host
• Lucy Macleod, London Fire Brigade

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Catherine Levin talks to Professor Shane Ewen about his involvement in a new play called Trailblazing - women have always been firefighters. It's a conversation about cultural change and uses stories to show the evolution of women working in the fire and rescue service.

It is an impressive collaboration with arts organisations in West Yorkshire to create a play, drawing on research and oral histories. The play shares women’s experience of working in the fire service in the second world war, in the 1980s and in recent times. It is a West Yorkshire experience, but it speaks to themes that go beyond this part of the country.

Listen on to find out more about the play.

For more information on the play and the wider work Shane is doing in this space, email him directly: s.ewen@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Speakers:

Catherine Levin, Emergency Services Times

Professor Shane Ewen, Leeds Beckett University

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This is the first of three episodes led by the Emergency Planning Society. In this one we hear from a panel of experts who explore the critical role of communication in fostering trust, collaboration, and empowerment. They highlight the shift from fear-based messaging to transparent, preparedness-focused communication.

Speakers:

• Jeannie Barr, Emergency Planning Society
• Amanda Coleman, Amanda Coleman Communications
• David Crouch, Cranfield University
• Joanne Maddams, West Northamptonshire Council

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The complexity of working with fingerprint lifts at crime scenes is challenging but a vital part of investigations. This is why the Digital Fingerprint Capability is a revolution for forensics and in this episode experts share how this has developed and how it integrates with key policing technology and infrastructure.

Speakers:

• Rich Preston, host
• James Earnshaw. Police Digital Service
• Stephen Gait, Police Digital Service
• Richard Meffen, Police Digital Service

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West Midlands Police is giving its new recruits virtual reality headsets to experience incidents from the victim’s point of view. In this episode hear about the force’s work with community interest company Calico and how they have been working with recent recruits to help them as they start their career in policing.

Speakers:

• Joy Flanagan, host
• Laura Burke, West Midlands Police
• Daz Scott, Calico

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In a first for the pod, we have gone stateside. Listen as Catherine Levin catches up with the chief of the Detroit Fire Department who she met more than a decade ago. They chat with Cory Hohs, the CEO of safety firm, Haas Alert about the modernisation of the fire department in motor city, how safety alerting forms part of keeping frontline responders safe and why data is key to improving outcomes.

Read more about the collaboration between DFD and Haas Alert.

Speakers:

Catherine Levin, Emergency Services Times

Commissioner Chuck Simms, Detroit Fire Department

Cory Hohs, Haas Alert

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