112 Operations Committee

To join the 112 Operations Committee, please contact either Jerome Paris at jp@eena.org or Gary Machado at gm@eena.org

Brief description of the 112 Operations Committe

Objectives
  • Stimulate sharing of best practices among EU emergency services
  • Review the different 112 models in Europe
  • Review international emergency services operational documents (e.g. NENA documents)
  • Create a set of recommendations to be published on EENA website that could serve as guidelines for EU emergency services and relevant authorities
  • Follow and work on EU legislation affecting emergency services as well as EU funding
Timetable

First half 2010 - presentations of the national 112 systems in Europe including:

  • Organisation of emergency services and call handling
  • Call-taking and training of 112 call-taker
  • Dispatching
  • Transfer of calls and data sharing
  • Statistics of emergency calls
  • Level of emergency service integration within control rooms
  • Citizens knowledge of 112 (national and as EU emergency number)
  • Performance indicators (response times, intervention times)
  • Accessibility for people with disabilities - handling of silent calls
  • Location - pull/push, cost, project -
  • Public warning for citizens
  • Issues to solve
  • Projects and/or reforms

From second half 2010 - Topic discussion and creation of requirements and performance indicators

Functioning
  • Google Group and mailing list
  • Monthly Conference call and WebMeeting
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To join the 112 Operations Committee, please contact either Jerome Paris at jp@eena.org or Gary Machado at gm@eena.org