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BAPCO help NPIA produce Guidance on Multi-Agency Interoperability
The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has recently published its ‘Guidance on Multi-Agency Interoperability’ having worked with staff from the Police, Fire and Ambulance Services to support the introduction of common practices and procedures to prepare front-line staff for the advances in communications interoperability.
The NPIA wrote to the BAPCO organisation to thank them for their input in helping put the guidance together saying:
”Many people from the emergency services and responding agencies took part in workshops, consultation and reviews, to ensure the Guidance is both technically and operationally acceptable. We are keen to let you know that the input we received from all those of you involved was widely appreciated, not only by the team, but by the chief officers associations and government departments represented on the Programme Board.
The Guidance has been published on the NPIA website and will have links to it from other websites, demonstrating its wide support. Indeed, it is worth noting the organisations who have added their signatures to the Guidance include the chief officer groups (CFOAS, CFOA, ACPOS, ACPO, DH, Scottish Ambulance Service and Scottish Resilience) as well as CLG, DoH and the Home Office."
The Guidance itself can be found at http://www.npia.police.uk/en/13291.htm and the NPIA is keen for the BAPCO organisation to help promote and share the message and its principles.
The team is now working to develop standard operating procedures that will concentrate on optimising use of the Airwave radio network for same service and inter-service communications. These will need to go through a similar consultation process to the Guidance, and the NPIA is hoping BAPCO and its members will be willing to assist them with that as well.
