Last month, 17 strategic, tactical and operational commanders from across Gibraltar’s emergency  services, the military and other responding partners received training in Joint Emergency Services  Interoperability Principles (JESIP). 

A statement from the Government follows below:

JESIP is a UK-wide doctrine established by the UK Home Office in 2012 that adopts a national  standard for effective joint working at all incidents that require a multi-agency response, with the  aim of saving lives.  

The Minister for Civil Contingencies, Leslie Bruzon, said: ‘The JESIP principles are crucial to the  efficacy of a multi-agency response to any incident, and save lives through effective joint working.  Training and continuous professional development are key to ensuring that all of Gibraltar’s  emergency services follow best practice, and this is regularly tested through regular multi-agency  contingency exercises such as the one that took place last week.’