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The Police service utilises a number of talk groups that provide interoperability between themselves and other services, organisations and agencies. Collectively these talk groups are known as the ‘National Fleetmap’. The Incident Management and Mutual Aid talk group sets ensure commonality and consistency of approach when working with other emergency services, partnership organisations or responder agencies within force boundaries, regionally and also nationally. Following approval from the Emergency Services Sharers Advisory Group (ESSAG), an interoperability agreement was developed for the Environment Agency (EA) to interoperate with the Police National Fleetmap using speci c talk groups. This national agreement covered:

The importance of eetmapping

Rav Jaspal, Airwave Fleetmapping Manager

also enables a co-ordinated response to any national level major event or disaster. The EA’s national eetmap incorporates talk groups, created for the use of teams within a speci ed region. These talk groups are available to all EA Airwave radios within a pre-de ned region, and this is replicated across the EA regions. Two talk groups were created for each region, for cross-region collaboration. The use of these is co-ordinated by the Local Radio Terminal Custodian in that region.

In addition, four national talk groups were created for national response scenarios, one of which is shared with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to allow for cross border mutual aid/ working. Its use is co-ordinated through the National Radio Terminal Custodian.

Fleetmapping Process

Service Provision/Customer Knowledge

Policies & strategies

Working Practices

User Consultation

Data Capture

Fleetmap Population

Fleetmap Maintenance

Fleetmap Change Mangement

Tactical

Strategic

» the use of the Joint Services Emergency Response talk groups » the dispatcher and radio terminals

» information relating to when they will be monitored » the con guration of talk groups in relation to alpha tags displayed in both dispatcher and radio terminals » speci ed talk group parameters e.g. priority and geographic validity

A separate national eetmap was then developed by Airwave for the EA. This allows for all regional areas to use the Airwave Service locally within teams, regionally and nationally across teams, and also nationally with regards to interoperability with other organisations/agencies who are users of the Airwave Service. This National Fleetmap allows for EA mutual aid to be provided to any region as required, and