Rescue / Home Office, Scottish Home Department.

  • Great Britain. Home Office.
Date:
1960
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rescue / Home Office, Scottish Home Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1.4 Organisation of the section The basic unit of the Rescue Section is the rescue party of eight men, including the leader and deputy leader, equipped with manpacks to enable essential tools to be carried conveniently over debris. Six such parties constitute a rescue platoon commanded by a Rescue Officer and a Deputy Rescue Officer. Five of the parties will carry the standard “party equipment” (see Appendix B (1)) which will suffice to enable all six to get to work. The sixth party will carry “platoon equipment”’ (see Appendix B (1I)) which will provide an immediate reserve and more specialised items of equipment. The allocation of platoon equipment to 1.5 1.6 ay in the use of the specialised equipment forms part of the advanced training for members of the Rescue Section. Each platoon will be equipped (in war) with three personnel carrying vehicles (P.C.V.), two parties riding in one vehicle, together with a staff car for the Rescue Officer and his Deputy; drivers for the three personnel carrying vehicles and the staff car will be additional to the platoon complement of parties. All party and platoon equipment will be carried in personnel carrying vehicles. Three platoons will form a Rescue Company, commanded by a Com- pany Rescue Officer and a Deputy Company Rescue Officer. Heavier equipment which cannot be carried by rescue parties, items only re- quired in special circumstances (e.g. flame cutting outfits and flood- lights), and reserve stores (see Appendix B (III)) will be allotted on a Company basis to be brought forward as required in Company Equip- ment Vehicles (C.E.V.). Three motor cycle dispatch riders will be attached to each company and the Company Rescue Officer and his Deputy will be provided with a staff car. Three companies will form a Rescue Column under the command of a Column Rescue Officer who will be provided with a staff car, and three motor cycle dispatch riders will be attached to each column. The organisation of the section is summarised in Appendices A and B.