For Every Response

99. Strengthening the system: people, planning and interoperability

In this second episode led by The Emergency Planning Society the team look at the UK’s national resilience capability and the growing need for skilled emergency planners. They talk about how to find practical solutions for improving interoperability across agencies and communities.

Speakers:

• Beverley Griffiths, Buckinghamshire New University, host
• Stephen Arundell, Emergency Planning Society
• David McClory, Slough Borough Council
• Chris Shuttleworth, Lancashire Resilience Forum

 

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98. Live facial recognition: bringing communities with you

As more police forces start to use live facial recognition technology, we hear from two forces who are early in their plans for implementation. Andrew Hendry from Police Scotland and Leanne Moorehouse from Devon and Cornwall Police join Rich Preston in this episode to talk about the considerations, practicalities and ethics behind future deployment.

Speakers:

• Rich Preston, host
• Andrew Hendry, Police Scotland
• Leanne Moorehouse, Devon and Cornwall Police

 

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97. Bariatric care: rescues with dignity

This time, we bring you a shorter episode from the show, featuring Lucy Macleod, a borough commander for the London Fire Brigade. Lucy shares the findings from her recent postgraduate research into bariatric evacuation and rescue during high impact events in London. With specialist procedures and techniques required, Lucy looks at the capacity in place to ensure rescues are carried out with dignity.

Speakers:

• Joy Flanagan, host
• Lucy Macleod, London Fire Brigade

 

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Bonus episode - Trailblazing with Professor Shane Ewen

Catherine Levin talks to Professor Shane Ewen about his involvement in a new play called Trailblazing - women have always been firefighters. It's a conversation about cultural change and uses stories to show the evolution of women working in the fire and rescue service. 

It is an impressive collaboration with arts organisations in West Yorkshire to create a play, drawing on research and oral histories. The play shares women’s experience of working in the fire service in the second world war, in the 1980s and in recent times. It is a West Yorkshire experience, but it speaks to themes that go beyond this part of the country.

Listen on to find out more about the play. 

For more information on the play and the wider work Shane is doing in this space, email him directly:  s.ewen@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Speakers: 

Catherine Levin, Emergency Services Times

Professor Shane Ewen, Leeds Beckett University

 

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96. Communicating resilience: building trust through preparedness

This is the first of three episodes led by the Emergency Planning Society. In this one we hear from a panel of experts who explore the critical role of communication in fostering trust, collaboration, and empowerment. They highlight the shift from fear-based messaging to transparent, preparedness-focused communication.

Speakers:

• Jeannie Barr, Emergency Planning Society 
• Amanda Coleman, Amanda Coleman Communications
• David Crouch, Cranfield University
• Joanne Maddams, West Northamptonshire Council

 

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95. Levelling the forensic playing field for UK policing

The complexity of working with fingerprint lifts at crime scenes is challenging but a vital part of investigations. This is why the Digital Fingerprint Capability is a revolution for forensics and in this episode experts share how this has developed and how it integrates with key policing technology and infrastructure.

Speakers:

• Rich Preston, host
• James Earnshaw. Police Digital Service
• Stephen Gait, Police Digital Service
• Richard Meffen, Police Digital Service

 

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94. Using VR to give police recruits insight into male crimes against women and girls

West Midlands Police is giving its new recruits virtual reality headsets to experience incidents from the victim’s point of view. In this episode hear about the force’s work with community interest company Calico and how they have been working with recent recruits to help them as they start their career in policing.

Speakers:

• Joy Flanagan, host
• Laura Burke, West Midlands Police
• Daz Scott, Calico

 

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Bonus episode - Detroit Fire Department x Haas Alert

In a first for the pod, we have gone stateside. Listen as Catherine Levin catches up with the chief of the Detroit Fire Department who she met more than a decade ago. They chat with Cory Hohs, the CEO of safety firm, Haas Alert about the modernisation of the fire department in motor city, how safety alerting forms part of keeping frontline responders safe and why data is key to improving outcomes. 

Read more about the collaboration between DFD and Haas Alert. 

Speakers: 

Catherine Levin, Emergency Services Times

Commissioner Chuck Simms, Detroit Fire Department

Cory Hohs, Haas Alert

 

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93. Managing the risk from contaminants

In this episode the panel led by the National Fire Chiefs Council looks at the risk from contaminants in all aspects of firefighter activity. Chaired by ACFO Luke Gazzard, the panel discusses how to minimise risk, whether that’s on the fireground or back at the fire station, as all services grapple with the problem of lowering the risk of exposure.

 

Speakers:

• Luke Gazzard, Avon Fire and Rescue Service (host)
• Becky Yates, Avon Fire and Rescue Service
• Peter Arnevall, Stockholm Fire Brigade
• John Asher, West Midlands Fire Service
• John Ashton, West Midlands Fire Service

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92. Operation Boxboard: a case study in multi-agency incident learning

Effective multi-agency collaboration is paramount during major incidents, yet capturing lessons from complex events poses significant challenges. This episode sees Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service outline its strategic implementation of ISARR, a dedicated organisational learning and lessons management platform.

Speakers:

• Rich Preston, host
• Neil Sadler, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Matt Butler, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service

 

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91. Getting to the root of work-related stress in the control room

Get a frontline insight into the control room with findings from a staff centred project to identify, assess, better understand and effectively manage the root causes of work-related stress. Join Humberside Police and Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service in this episode to learn about their work with psychologists from the University of Hull.

 

Speakers:

• Léa Fréour, University of Hull, host
• Fiona Earle, University of Hull
• Ryan Stacey, Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Luke Shaw, Humberside Police

 

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Bonus episode - Launch of the Gratitude Games

In this short bonus episode we learn all about the Gratitude Games which is a new event for the emergency services taking place in Manchester in June 2026. 

Catherine Levin went to the launch early in November to talk to the founders and the emergency services who are supporting it. She finds great enthusiasm for using sport to bring people together, to have conversations about the mental health of those on the frontline while raising money for six great causes.

Find out more here: https://gratitudegames.uk/

Speakers: 

Catherine Levin, Emergency Services Times

Mark Downard, Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

Ricky Nuttall, formerly of London Fire Brigade

Kate Green, Deputy Mayor, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Louise Harrison, Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

Geoff Cheshire, Police Care

 

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