Minutes from your Regional Committee Meeting 4th January 2010
From Peter Prater – Chair, South West & South Wales Region
To All Committee Members & Officers of South West & South Wales Region
CC Chief Executive, BAPCO Ltd trotterr@bapco.org.uk
MINUTES FOR SW & SW REGIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING – 4th January 2010
Meeting held at :- The Bell House Hotel,
High Street, Sutton Benger, Chippenham, Wilts, SN15 4RH
01249 720 401 Time 1900hrs-2100hrs
1.0 Committee members present:
Initials Name Role
Chair
PP Peter Prater Chair
KP Keith Phillips Executive Member
RC Richard Claridge Service Rep
Apologies:
TM Tracey Mott BAPCO Admin Mgr
JS Jason Somerville Committee Member
GW Graham Weeks Commercial Member
PJ Phil Jefferson Commercial Member
ME Mark Every Communications Lead
2.0 Record of Minutes:
Minutes from 2nd November 2009 recorded as a true record.
3.0 Comments on outstanding Items
Update on Item 4 – Executive Committee. Concerning the Executive Rep’s reminder to BAPCO CEO re policy paper for the annual conference and clarification of the BAPCO Vice Presidency. KP continues to push for action on both these items but reported that at the most recent Executive Meeting (17 Dec 09) neither were discussed.
4.0 Highlights of Update from the National Executive Committee held 24 Sep 09
Both KP and PP attended the Executive Committee meeting on the 17th Dec 09. KP provided a report on the meeting.
• The Executive discussed and voted on items related to the handover of Executive Director responsibilities.
• BAPCO 2010 is coming together well.
• CAG had discussed the use of WEBINARS and intends to conduct a demonstration of this technology in order to gauge its potential for use by BAPCO
• Training & Accreditation: The Committee was updated on work related to an accreditation programme associated with call management and call handlers This work is being shared between BAPCO, NPIA, APCO and with NENA colleagues in the US.
• European Projects. BAPCO has two staff working on European Projects/Committees. Particularly:
o European Space Agency Project – A satellite based system to provide alerting to citizens before, during and after disasters.
o Securicom (funded by the EC) – to improve the response to crisis management operations during catastrophic natural and man made incidents.
o Chorist
o Nartus
o PSC-E Forum
o Project MESA (ETSI/TIA)
o BAPCO is also included in tenders for 5 new projects
o ACPO (IM) Group
• APCO Global Alliance
• APCO Canada
• KP reported that nominations for elected office and for the Region’s nomination for attendance at the Annual Conference in 2010 were not addressed at this most recent Executive Meeting. KP action to check with our nominee re his availability if his nomination is accepted by the Executive Committee. KP to report back to PP and discuss this further once he has discussed please.
5.0 Membership Report
• Total members today are 1,166 of which 281 members, 164 Commercial, 112 Active, Associate Members 2 and Life Members 3.
6.0 Service News
• Nothing particular was reported, largely due to the Christmas break being so recent. (ACTION. PP to press for active fire and police representation on the committee)
7.0 Event Planning
• MAR 2010. PP provided a report on the plans for the next event, the topic of which is Visual Communications. This is now scheduled for 23 March 2010. The venue is The Conference Room at Bristol City Council. The programme for the day is shaping up well with just one slot really to fill. There is a requirement for a mini-exhibition and PP will liaise with the BAPCO Admin Manager following his detailed recce of the venue, currently scheduled for 8th Jan 2010. PP to invite chiefs from A&S Constabulary, Avon Fire (KP to provide details) and Gt Western Ambulance (RC to provide details)
• JUL 2010. The committee decided that the July event will focus on Joint/Converging IT solutions – so topics such as ambulance regionalisation (RC to provide contact details), police ISIS, back office integration (PP to contact Northgate), Service oriented architecture, IT systems for the Joint Police and Fire Arson Teams (KP to provide contact details for WPS Ltd).
• Future Events. The following topics are left open for further discussion in relation to future events.
o Asset tracking and reporting – APLS, AVLS, ANPR, RFID, EADS/Thales trials, in-building
o Future mobile communications solutions – spectrum, ownership, portfolio, procurement and deployment scenarios, future use of voice and data, information provision, re-shaping command and control.
• The aim in each case is to generate outcomes from the event for publication in the Journal and on our web pages
8.0 Outbound Communications
• No report received as ME was not in attendance. The following actions remain outstanding from the Nov 09 meeting.
• ACTION. ME to pass a summary of his views/findings to the CEO for his attention.
• ACTION. ME to discuss typo and font amendments to the region’s page with the BAPCO Admin Manager.
9.0 AOB
None
10.0 Dates of next meetings
Below….
Date Time Location Event Remarks
23rd Mar 10 All day Bristol City Council offices Regional Members Meeting Visual Comms
29th Mar 10 1900hrs Bell House Hotel, Sutton Benger, SN15 4RH Regional Committee Meeting
20-22 Apr 10 All day BDC, Islington, London BAPCO 10
14th Jun 10 1900hrs Bell House Hotel, Sutton Benger, SN15 4RH Regional Committee Meeting
Jul 10 All day TBC Regional Members Meeting TBC
13th Sep 10 1900hrs Bell House Hotel, Sutton Benger, SN15 4RH Regional Committee Meeting
