Summary of the Resilience briefing received by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, presented on the 9 February 2016.

1. SCRUTINY
SNIPPETS
9 February 2-16

2. Broadland ResilienceUpdate
• Arising from handover of
chairmanship of the
Resilience Forum, Police
taken opportunity to
review security risk
procedures. Relates to
terror attacks, public
awareness management
and public building
security
• Work has begun with
BDC staff to review
safety and security
arrangements

3. • No additional intelligence suggests Broadland is
in a risk area
• Exercise completed with Corporate Management
Team reviewing how business continuity and
security is addressed at team meetings
• Parish/Town Councils have the opportunity to
contact the Emergency Planning Manager to
arrange training workshops to respond to
resilience scenarios.

4. • Staff security & safety
awareness is being raised by
Heads of Service with their
teams
• Plans are being considered for
bomb threat exercise
depending on the type of
threat being presented
• A post room exercise was
carried out on 22 Jan 2016 to
test procedures for dealing
with a letter containing a
suspicious substance