Winter Storm 2024 tests emergency services’ sub-zero response capabilities | Scottish Fire Service on the hunt for new chief

Catherine Levin recently attended Winter Storm 2024 to find out how the extreme weather training exercise stress tests emergency services’ sub-zero response capabilities so they can be improved going forwards.

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Winter Storm 2024 tests emergency services’ sub-zero response capabilities

Having put on an extreme weather training exercise last year, Cheshire Constabulary’s Sgt Rob Simpson wanted to do it all over again and see how to improve and stress test how emergency services respond when the temperature is well below zero.

Catherine Levin recently attended Winter Storm 2024 to find out more. More via Emergency Services Times

IFE launches Early Careers Networking Group

The Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE) has announced the launch of its Early Careers Networking Group (ECNG), a new initiative designed to support budding talent in the field of fire engineering.

The group aims to offer young professionals and students a comprehensive insight into the wide range of vocations available within fire engineering, encouraging interest in the sector. More via IFE

Met police ‘using human rights laws to block trooping the colour protest’

The anti-monarchy campaign group Republic has accused the Metropolitan police of seeking to use human rights legislation to block protests at this weekend’s trooping the colour.

In a move it described as “Kafkaesque”, Republic claimed the force has written to it citing the European convention on human rights (ECHR), saying it was using ”the very law designed to protect the right to protest as justification for closing down protest”. More via The Guardian

‘Rapid release’ plan to solve Aberdeen ambulance crisis

NHS Grampian chief, Adam Coldwells, has laid out how a “rapid release” plan could put an end to the ambulance queuing crisis blighting Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI).

Mr Coldwells said that the plan was to improve every moving part of the hospital’s system, so ambulances could be freed up more quickly. More via Press and Journal

Scottish Fire Service on the hunt for new chief

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is looking for its next Chief Fire Officer, as its current one, Ross Haggart, is to retire later this year after 30 years of service.

The £190k role oversees the world’s fourth largest fire and rescue service with its 350 fire stations and over 3,500 firefighters. More via Emergency Services Times

‘Perfectly lawful’ to stir up racial and religious hatred, Met Police chief says

The country’s most senior police officer has called for “outrageous” gaps in hate crime law, which he said allows people to lawfully stir up racial and religious hatred, to be closed.

Sir Mark Rowley, who leads the Metropolitan Police, said it was “outrageous” that people could stir hatred if they “avoid being threatening or abusive”. More via Yahoo! News