Saturday, December 17, 2005

Crisis identity / Jane's Police Review, 14 Dec 2005

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John Dean
"Specialists involved in identifying the dead after disasters should be able to respond more rapidly and efficiently with the creation of a nationally co-ordinated network of officers, forensic scientists and medical practitioners. Under the new arrangements, there will be a national disaster victim identification team able to respond at short notice to major incidents. The system, which is being set up over the next year by the Home Office and ACPO along with other bodies, will ensure that the most appropriate experts - be they police officers, forensic specialists or medical practitioners - are rapidly deployed to the scenes of disasters at home or abroad. " [Sub required]