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7/7 Terror Drills Become Real
"...we had to suddenly switch an exercise from fictional to real." Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants POWER: Today we were running an exercise for a company-bear in mind now that I'm in the private sector-and we sat everybody down in the city-1000 people involved in the whole organization-with the crisis team. And the most peculiar thing was it was based on a scenario of simultaneous attacks on a underground and mainline station. So we had to suddenly switch an exercise from fictional to real. And one of the first things is, get that bureau number, when you have a list of people missing, tell them. And it took a long time. INTERVIEWER: Just to get this right, you were actually working today on an exercise that envisioned virtually this scenario? POWER: Almost precisely. see video interview (wmv 2.5MB) 7 July, 2005, ITV News interview with Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, and a former Scotland Yard official who worked at one time with the Anti Terrorist Branch. |