NEW DEVELOPMENTS

TUVW - Tracing of Unknown/Uninjured Victims and/or Witnesses after a Major Incident

Introduction

Whenever a large or major incident has occurred it is clear that, within a specific distance of the incident, people will be injured or killed. Those injured or killed will be dealt with by the police, ambulance, Fire/rescue and other front  line organisations and be identified and managed by the use of  “Cruciform” ® cards for the pre-hospital identification and triage.

The actual location of the victim would be identified by “tagging” the location using a unique number from the “Cruciform” ® card attached to the victim. Other tags could be used to identify property, separated body parts, children linked to that victim, ambulance, police or fire/rescue service documentation and hospital records. As a result, if the system is used as described briefly above, tracing the injured (or dead) and associated property should not create exceptional difficulties for the police. It should, in practice, prove easier and more cost effective to link all the disparate agencies and possessions than it is at present, where no single national and/or logical system is in place.

Until now, there has been a limited ability by the police and other authorities to trace anyone close to or involved with a major incident who has not been injured. Most people, if they are not injured or otherwise incapacitated, will self-evacuate from the immediate vicinity of the incident or be ushered away by well meaning police or others and, in most cases, become “lost” to the police or other agencies trying to manage and investigate the incident aftermath. A number of those may be foreign nationals in the UK as tourists and they too will not naturally consider contacting the UK authorities, or may not know who to contact.

The police invariably appeal to anyone involved to get in touch by television or radio appeals or notices in local or national newspapers after the event. Some people do get in touch after such appeals but, probably, the majority do not. It is, therefore, impossible to know how many people may have been close to the incident and have been in possession of information which could have helped the police and others to properly investigate the incident. Vital evidence is undoubtedly lost as a result.

Proposed Solution

CWC Services is now proposing a mechanism to substantially increase the numbers who contact the police or other authorities. It should provide a major increase in information about the incident at quite reasonable cost and can be stored without deterioration for a long time prior to use. Similarly the proposed web site can be established rapidly and at a reasonable cost.

CWC Services has developed a Tracing Unknown / Uninjured Victims and / or Witness (TUVW) pack and web site. The pack would be available at all venues where people gather or where large numbers pass through. This could be major sporting venues and the like, or railway stations/tube stations, airports and similar. A linked TUVW web site would also be established.

The remaining details about this project are not presently available on this web site and will remain undisclosed until further work is done and appropriate agencies have been more fully involved.

If any representative of a relevant agency wishes to discuss this project further, or would like a presentation, please contact us at info@cwc-services.com