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BORDER SECURITY
success, development of more
sports facilities and encouraging
participation in schools sports and
wider
• social and volunteering –
inspiring others to volunteer and
encouraging social change
• regeneration – reuse of
venues, new homes, improved
transportation, in East London and
at other sites across the UK.
What the Olympic Legacy means
to UK plc
At the time the UK Prime Minister
said that the Olympics had been
a “massive self-confidence boost”
about “who we are as a country
and what we stand for”.
The Prime Minister said Lord Coe,
who led the UKs planning, had
“done a brilliant job delivering the
best Games ever”, adding: “Now
I want him to help me deliver the
best Olympic legacy ever.”
After the Olympics Mr Cameron
told the BBC there was a “huge
opportunity to build the legacy for
the Games.
Lord Coe said he was “very
happy” to drive the legacy
forward but it was not a “one- man
mission” and the “whole nation”
had to support its values.
In the context of national security
the resilience planning which
occurred for the Olympics was
complex, challenging and leading
edge in terms of how the many
stakeholders eventually worked so
successfully together.
The failure by G4S to deliver
on the recruitment of security
personnel is an excellent exmple
of how a catastrophic failure by
a key commercial partner had
already been factored into the
resilience planning by the Olympic
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“Resilience is the ability to sustain an effective
operation even in the face of a natural or
man made catastrophic failure within a social,
business, geographical or business system . “
Mike Fuller MBE Former Olympic resilience lead
Resilience team.
The G4S situation was evident
some18 months prior to the
Olympics, a resilience strategy
was created and modelled
. This can now of course be
viewed as a part of the brilliance
of the Resilience teams modus
operandii as a effective and well
rehearsed plan was immediately
implemented , the army deployed
and all bases covered..
The expertise acquired during
this process facilitated the team
from Great Britain leading the
planning for the Brazil 2014 World
Cup and for engagement in the
resilience planning for energy,
medical and cross border security
sectors .
The Ebola Outbreak Cross Border
Security and Resilience Planning.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa
is the world’s deadliest
to date since 1976
when it was first
seen, and the World
Health Organization
has declared an
international health
emergency as more
than 2600 people
have died of the virus
in Guinea, Liberia,
Sierra Leone and Nigeria
this year.
The United States has now
deployed several thousand troops
and committed massive resource
as President Barack Obama has
confirmed that it is now a threat to
global security .
What is Ebola?
Ebola is a viral illness of which the
initial symptoms can include a
sudden fever, intense weakness,
muscle pain and a sore throat,
according to the World Health
Organization (WHO). And that is
just the beginning: subsequent
stages are vomiting, diarrhoea
and - in some cases - both internal
and external bleeding.
The disease infects humans
through close contact with
infected animals, including
chimpanzees, fruit bats and forest
antelope.
It then spreads between humans
by direct contact with infected
blood, bodily fluids or organs, or
indirectly through contact with
contaminated environments.
Even funerals of Ebola victims
can be a risk, if mourners have
direct contact with the body of the
deceased.
The incubation period can last
from two days to three weeks,
and diagnosis is difficult. The
human disease has so far been
mostly limited to Africa, although
one strain has cropped up in the
Philippines.
Healthcare workers are at risk if
they treat patients without taking
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