Communications working group

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This page contains information on the Communications Working Group, as well as links to key documents that inform its work.

Membership

The following is a list of organisations that have standing membership of the Communications Working Group:

  • Ambulance Service Association
  • Association of Chief Police Officers
  • Association of Chief Police Officers (Scotland)
  • Association of Lowland Search and Rescue (ALSAR) 
  • Chief and Assistant Chief Fire Officers Association
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
  • Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
  • Home Office
  • Ministry of Defence
  • Scottish Executive
  • Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland
  • Mountain Rescue Council of England and Wales
  • Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Documents:

Land SAR Communications Manual (151 kb)

A manual providing a land search and rescue overview of radio communcations in the United Kingdom.

Published:
11 June 2008

UK SAR Band Plan (30 kb)

Full details of search and rescue channels.

Published:
11 June 2008

UK Land SAR SOP: Management of UK land SAR Channels during SAR operations v1.2 (22 kb)

A description of the channels to be used / monitored during land SAR operations.

Published:
11 June 2008

Interoperability between land search and rescue and the airwave infrastructure (102 kb)

A paper intended to initiate the harmonisation of the use of radio between ACPO / ACPOS and land SAR organisations during SAR operations.

Published:
11 June 2008

Impact of windfarms on navigation (42 kb)

An extract from the paper "Assessment of the Navigational Impact of Offshore Wind Farms" presented by Colin Brown, Master Mariner, Offshore Wind Farm Advisor to the MCA at Trinity House's Collision Risk Management Seminar on 4 November 2003.

Published:
11 June 2008

Implementation and control of the UK VHF high band land search and rescue radio channels (130 kb)

Version 5.6

Published:
11 June 2008

Call Signs (21 kb)

Approved call signs on the low and high band search and rescue channels.

Published:
11 June 2008

SAR Channel application form, UK and Wales (377 kb)

Application form for access to all land search and rescue radio channels. All applicants in England and Wales, as well as existing approved users in Scotland.

Published:
11 June 2008

SAR Channel application form, new applicants (249 kb)

Form exclusively for new applicants in Scotland who do not currently have access to SAR radio channels.

Published:
11 June 2008