Raynet Exercise Ro-Ro

摘要

Exercise RO-RO was originally planned to be a local council exercise with the purpose of testing both the local council's emergency planning department and the emergency plan for the Ramsgate New Port (ferry terminal). Raynet's involvement came about after a discussion with the County's Emergency Planning Officer at a previous Kent County Controller's meeting regarding Thanet Raynet's tests with SSTV. I have always been amazed by the use of mobile telephone during exercises, as although they are a very useful tool, a danger of complacence can arise. During any major incident this technology could be one of the first to fail, for this reason they were (from a Raynet perspective) banned. After all, if we cannot set up a professional system that would enable us to communicate not only with audio but in this case also visually, what use would we be in a real emergency? Although we did not know the scope of the exercise, we knew that we would need access to Ramsgate New Port, so a meeting was arranged several weeks in advance. They very kindly offered us free movement within the port and this turned out to be invaluable during the exercise.