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2 days ago | 
emergencyservicestimes.com | Catherine Levin
Continuing its relationship with the capital’s fire service, NEC Software Solutions has won a major contract to supply London Fire Brigade with a new emergency response and mobilising system due to roll out later next year. After a competitive procurement process, the £20m five-year contract was confirmed last month with NEC Software Solutions providing more detail today.
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4 days ago | 
emergencyservicestimes.com | Catherine Levin
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has match funded sprinkler installations in three care homes in Sheffield as it delivers on its strategy to reduce deaths as well as the building and environmental damage caused by fire. Almost 200 care home residents are safer from fire thanks to a partnership between South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and not for profit charity, Sheffcare.
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4 days ago | 
emergencyservicestimes.com | Catherine Levin
Under new rules that will come into force later this month, police officers found guilty of gross misconduct will be sacked unless there are exceptional circumstances.
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4 days ago | 
emergencyservicestimes.com | Catherine Levin
The National Police Chiefs’ Council has teamed up with UK Research and Innovation to fund nine new Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) that are due to start work in October 2025. The £4.5m funding boost from the National Police Chiefs’ Council will drive collaboration between academia and policing, with the P-ACEs supporting policing to adopt new technologies, develop new tools and techniques, improve training and skills, and increase public safety.
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4 days ago | 
emergencyservicestimes.com | Catherine Levin
The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives has published a position statement setting out how it sees the future commissioning of ambulance services by the reformed NHS Integrated Care System in England. This comes after the demise of NHS England as it moves to the Department of Health and Social Care later this year and cuts that are seeing existing Integrated Care Boards (ICB) having to substantially reduce their operating budgets.
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4 days ago | 
emergencyservicestimes.com | Catherine Levin
London Fire Brigade (LFB) became the first fire service in the country to introduce an electric fire engine in 2022. It’s called the ‘ZEPA1’, which stands for Zero Emission Capable Pumping Appliance. The ZEPA1 is basically identical to a typical fire truck in the brigade’s fleet. It has a 1,750 litre water capacity and can also carry 100 litres of foam. The key difference is it can run entirely on electric thanks to a huge 280kWh battery giving a 200 mile range.
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1 week ago | 
emergencyservicestimes.com | Catherine Levin
For the second time, Chorus Intelligence Ltd has won an award for its innovation in police technology, this time for its digital intelligence and investigation platform. Chorus Intelligence received its King’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation for the Chorus Intelligence Suite (CIS). This is a fully integrated, end-to-end digital intelligence and investigation platform which Chorus says empowers modern policing and strengthens public safety through a unified, data-driven approach.
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1 week ago | 
emergencyservicestimes.com | Catherine Levin
Headed up by David Boyle, the JESIP team is working hard to get its interoperability principles embedded in the muscle memory of all responders. He tells me about his approach to leading this work when I spoke to him for the first episode of the new season of the Emergency Services Times podcast, For Every Response.
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1 week ago | 
emergencyservicestimes.com | Catherine Levin
Chloe Townsend is the first tri-service safety officer (TSSO) to work in Devon, building on a decade of experience in neighbouring Cornwall to enhance early intervention, prevention, and support for vulnerable individuals across the county. Emergency services from across the counties came together recently in Holsworthy to launch the start of the tri-service approach.
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1 week ago | 
emergencyservicestimes.com | Catherine Levin
The sixth issue of the UK Resilience Academy’s Lessons Digest is now available and highlights the importance of collaboration and coordination against cyber attacks. The central learning analysis in this edition summarises learning themes and shares transferable lessons from seven cyber incidents, to support and inform continual improvements in cyber resilience.
