Missions and Dispatching

Purpose

This section will document how missions generate, scale and resolve, and how responding, on-scene and still-required resources should be interpreted.

Planned coverage

• Mission generation
• Mission requirements
• Additional and probabilistic requirements
• Responding versus on-scene resources
• Patients, prisoners and transports
• Follow-up missions
• Mission expansion and escalation
• Shared and alliance missions
• Dispatch Centre organisation
• Dispatch rules and automation tools

Data requirement

Each mission record should eventually expose:

• canonical UK name;
• known aliases;
• mission identifier;
• service category;
• guaranteed requirements;
• probabilistic requirements;
• patient and prisoner behaviour;
• transport destinations;
• average and maximum reward where known;
• verification date and evidence source.