London Fire Brigade & NATO carry out counter-terror training
The London Fire Brigade has undergone training on how emergency services respond to incidents such as terrorist attacks on behalf of NATO
Nineteen delegates from nations in North Africa and the Middle East took part in the training with officers from the UK’s National Inter-Agency Liaison Officer (NILO) Network. The network is managed by the London Fire Brigade.
The training hopes to ensure that first responders, including civilian and military, can collaborate effectively when responding to acts of terror. It also hopes to introduce basic coordination plans which emergency services can employ. These can then be put to use to suit the needs of each participating nation.
Officers from law enforcement, emergency services, and military backgrounds attended the training course. Delegates heard from the Brigade’s officers on how emergency services and public bodies in the UK can coordinate their response to an emergency situation. That can include sharing the country’s Joint Emergency Service Interoperability Principles (JESIP).
The course also covered how the Brigade and its partners have responded in the past to major incidents such as the London Bridge attack in 2017 and the 2018 Salisbury Poisonings. The training culminated in a tabletop exercise for delegates. They were able to put everything they had learned into practice, including a tactical exercise designed to test their response to a potentially major incident.
The NILO Network was launched in 2001 when officers from the Brigade looked into how to respond to acts of terror. For over two decades, the Brigade says, it “has continued to develop its expertise in this area, initially working to improve capabilities across the UK.”
“The partnership with NATO grew out of the Brigade’s involvement in the Counter Terrorism Preparedness Network (CTPN), which brings together the mayors and counter terrorism leads of major European cities. In these meetings it became clear that the Brigade’s expertise could be used to train NATO partners. As a result, the programme has been created, with additional support from the US State Department, with the aim of helping first responders increase public safety globally.”
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