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| Today: 03 September 2010 Time: 02:33 AM |
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| Anti-terror planning "poor", MPs |
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| Military and Security 3/12/2009 1:21:00 PM |
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LONDON, March 12 (KUNA) -- Fire services in the UK are not properly
prepared to deal with a major terrorist attack or disaster, an influential
group of British MPs warned Thursday.
Staff are confused about who can order the deployment of emergency
equipment, the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee said.
The MPs also condemned management of the 330 million pounds project
designed to bring the response up to scratch in England.
Ministers said the investment had improved ability to respond to
large-scale emergency events.
The cross-party committee was reporting on the "New Dimension" improvement
programme, put in place by the British Government in the wake of the 11
September attacks on the US in 2001.
They said it had been left vulnerable to an 867,000 pounds fraud and that
the 12 million pounds spent on consultants was too much.
But the committee's chairman, the main opposition Conservative MP Edward
Leigh said the capabilities brought by the scheme were welcome and had proved
useful for incidents such as the floods of summer 2007.
However, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) needed
to "get a grip" on many aspects to ensure co-ordinated responses to
"catastrophic incidents".
"It is not comfortable to contemplate the alternative," he said.
Leigh said the DCLG held no comprehensive data on the availability of
emergency equipment or which firefighters were trained to use it.
"The command and control arrangements are uncertain, with an unacceptable
level of confusion among local Fire and Rescue services about who makes the
decision to deploy the equipment," he added. (end)
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مجلس الوزراء
اللجنة العليا للتحضير للاحتفال بالذكرى
الـ(50)
لاستقلال دولة الكويت و الذكرى الـ (20)
لعيد التحرير
اعـــــــــــــــــــلان
فى إطار الاستعدادات و الترتيبات الجارية للإعداد و التحضير للاحتفال
باليوبيل الذهبي للاستقلال و مرور
(20) عاما على تحرير دولة الكويت و انطلاقا من
حرص اللجنة العليا على إشراك كافة قطاعات الدولة فى الاحتفال بهاتين المناسبتين
الوطنيتين
يسر اللجنة الإعلامية المنبثقة عن اللجنة العليا دعوة من يرغب من مؤسسات و
شركات القطاع الخاص و الاتحادات التجارية و الاستثمارية للمشاركة في الأنشطة و
الفعاليات المقرر تنظيمها فى شهر فبراير من العام القادم 2011م
للاستفسار والتنسيق ومزيد من التفاصيل :
1- مكتب مقرر اللجنة الإعلامية:
هاتف: 22462289
فاكس: 22462296
2- البريد الإلكتروني:
kuwait5020@media.gov.kw
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