TETRA Experience 2006

POLAND

Deputy Chief Constable

Mr Ricky Gray Strathclyde Police

Airwave Lead/Senior User

G8

Wednesday 6 - 8 July

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Fife

Gleneagles

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Point of EntryPrestwick Airport

Fife

Arrivals by day6-8 July 2005

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Fife

Coldplay LiveBellahouston1-2 July 2005

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

EdinburghPoverty MarchSaturday2 July 2005

250,000 people

Fife

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Fife

Special Olympics GlasgowSaturday2 July 2005

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Fife

ProtestMarchEdinburgh

Sunday3 July 2005

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

FaslaneMonday 4 July 2005FaslaneMonday 4 July 2005

Fife

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

DungavelTuesday5 July 2005

Fife

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Fife

PrestwickAirportto Gleneagles Wednesday 6 July 2005

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Fife

Live 8 Concert Murrayfield6 July 2005

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Fife

Glasgow Edinburgh

Stirling

ConvergenceSites

London Bombings7 July 2005

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Fife

ScottishOpen GolfLoch Lomond8-11 July 2005

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Fife

T in the ParkKinross8-11 July 2005

Largest Police Force Assembled

12,000 Officers

51 Forces from the U.K. contributed

Business as Usual

G8 - Gleneagles Hotel- 2005

Alan Lee

Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland.

Airwave Programme Manager

Ready For Service Dates (RFS)

• Dumfries and Galloway - 16th July 2004• Lothian and Borders - 11th October 2004• Central Scotland - 8th November 2004• Fife - 30th November 2004• Tayside - (Host Event Force) - 10th

December 2004• Strathclyde - 17th December 2004

RFS - Continued

• Grampian - 2nd March 2005

• Northern - 10th May 2005

• All Forces now migrated

• BTP

• Scottish Crime & Drug Enforcement Agency

(SCDEA)

G8 - Planning

• Started in Q1- 04

• Project SORBUS - Summer 2004

• How did a ‘National Network’ influence

planning?

Network Performance

• How did it perform?

• Did it meet the user requirements and

expectations?

• Did the user community truly understand the

concept of a ‘National Network’?

• Did the partnership work between the Police

and the Service Provider?

GleneaglesCalls per hour

Gleneagles Minutes Activity

EdinburghCalls per hour

EdinburghMinutes Activity

OtterburnNorthumbria

Why?

Lessons Learnt

• closer relationship between operational and

communications planners

• operational orders and briefings

• 30 police mutual aid talkgroups - is that enough?

• do we need to think again regarding national

talkgroups?

G8

Airwave

Communications

Date: As at 01/07/05 Users: 272 Percentage:4%

NE & ND

Scoping Demand

• 10 days of activity

• 51 UK Forces

• 12,000 Resources

• 4000 trained In Force

• Multiple venues in and outside Force area

Arrivals by day6-8 July 2005

Talkgroup Management

0

10

20

30

40

50

60Activity for Talkgroup O2PMA18 (19708) - 5 July 2005

Hour Commencing July 2005

00 12 13 14 15 161110090807060504030201 17 18 19 2021 21 22 23

Lessons Learned

• Real Time Information on System

Performance is Essential

• National Management of Talkgroup

allocation is essential for Major Events

• The number of Mandatory Talkgroups

and their presentation in Police Control

Rooms must be reviewed.

Lessons Learned

• Common Naming conventions and briefing is required to facilitate

interoperability.

• Radio discipline

• Operational briefing - Travelling/at venue

Northern Grampian

Tayside

Lothian& Borders

Dumfries & Galloway

Strathclyde

CentralScotland

Fife

Communications Activity Analysis During the G8 Summit

Recommendations

1 That this report is made available to all police forces regardless of their involvement with the G8 Operation

2 That policies and instructions in relation to aiding detachments travelling and at a staging or rendezvous point take account of the implications of monitoring multiple operational talkgroups

3 That where large numbers of users are to gather at a staging or rendezvous point within a force other than that hosting the event,that any liaison takes place with the force hosting that rendezvous point in relation to any potential communications implications

4 That where aiding detachments are used in policing of large events the hosting force continues to stress the implications of monitoring inappropriate talkgroups and continues to “police” the activity through radio sites serving the event with the assistance of the service provider

Recommendations

5 The service providers appear to be committed to geographically constraining talkgroups in consultation with the owner of each talkgroup. This work will only start after all clusters are connected and it is likely to take a considerable period to complete. With the experiences of this policing event, where appropriate, forces should consider approaching service providers to have all talkgroups belonging to aiding detachments removed from critical radio sites supporting any event

6 The long term decision about which talkgroups will be allowed on what radio sites will be taken by individual forces. In the light of the

G8 operation, the service as a whole should consider if there is a need for corporate guidelines in relation to the constraint of geographical areas associated with operational talkgroups carrying heavy voice traffic

Recommendations

7 That when using Police Mutual Aid talkgroups forces consider specifying on which radio sites these talkgroups should be enabled

8 That forces consider the need for and advantages of detailed surveys of best serving radio sites or detailed analysis of radio activity in operational use when planning high profile operational events so that where necessary activity on all radio sites supporting the event can take place

9 That all forces are made aware of the limit of 2,000 radios affiliating to a single radio site and the potential operational implications for large policing operations in the future

FUTURE

Future of Airwavein Scotland

• All forces migrate onto system

• The building of a ground base network

resilient system

• ‘Hot mirror’ switch

• Development of mobile information

• Blue light interop

Mr Ricky Gray

Deputy Chief Constable

Thank You

TETRA Experience 2006

POLAND