Incident Control
| Author | Arthur Rawson |
| Date | 01 April 1944 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X4401700209 |
| Published date | 01 April 1944 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
INCIDENT
CONTROL
in the Metropolitan area, in an endeavour to discover Mr. E, who is
primafacie the thief. Police enquiries so far have failed to establish
Mr. E's identity.
The
unassailable facts are that Mr. Aat Dunstable had his cycle
stolen on June 25th, 1943, and it was taken to London by someone
whose identity is unknown, there sold, taken by the purchaser to the
town of Luton, Beds, sold again by an advertisement, taken by the
third purchaser to Dunstable, and there seen on August loth, 1943,
by the owner not many yards from the spot whence it had been stolen
nearly two months previously!
On August roth, 1943, the bicycle came into the possession of the
police.
Mr.
C, a few days later, paid
£6
lOS.
to Mr. Bas recompense,
and Mr. Asought restitution of his bicycle, leaving the police a pretty
little problem of the immediate disposal, or otherwise, of the bicycle!
Incident Control
By
INSPECTOR
ARTHUR
RAWSON, A.R.P.S.,
Civil Defence
Training
Officer, Scarborough Borough Police
THE new method of Incident Control calls for additional training in
the Police and Civil Defence Services,
but
the delay in publishing
the Incident Control Manual has, in some instances, rather slowed
down the progress made to date.
The
general need for Incident Control remains the same,
but
the
necessity of control being established more quickly after the fall of
bombs is recognised in all quarters.
The
old system of control was often not established until the
majority of the Civil Defence Services had arrived on the scene; the
result was, in most cases, chaotic, and the first task of the Incident
Officer was to try to get order and system.
In most of the provinces, at any rate, police officers were in charge
of Incident Control,
but
the new method now recommends wardens to
be trained in Incident Control so that they may at least start control
at an incident on the right lines immediately bombs fall, thereby
obviating any confusion such as arose in the past.
I would like the reader to assume that apatrolling police officer
or warden sees and hears H.E. bombs falling in the area he is patrolling,
and as a result he sends a message from his Warden's Post to the Report
Centre Post, giving the area or location as near as possible without
actually pin-pointing the damage. As a result of this message, which
is known as a " Preliminary Report," the Controller will send to the
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