Emergency planning involves assessing threats and preventing them, tackling major emergencies that occur and restoring a new normality afterwards.

We are responsible for creating a Major Emergency Plan for Crawley, we also:

• Assess Risks
• Prepare and maintain plans
• Arrange training, events and emergency exercises
• Provide the council response to Emergency Incidents
• Debriefing after an incident

• The generic Major Emergency Plan 
• Specific emergency plans 
• Communications systems (several means of communication are maintained in order to ensure contact with service managers and partner agencies is resilient)  
• Emergency Planning Officers via a dedicated line to a 24 hour council facility 
• Service Emergency Contact Officers across council functions to organise and manage support operations 
• Emergency Control Centre (and back up centre availability) 
• Reception centres across the borough 
• Welfare supplies 
• Emergency food supplies 
• Emergency clothing 
• Council staff resources and expertise  
• Mutual aid arrangements with neighbouring local authorities 
• Assistance from the voluntary agencies  
• An extensive database of emergency contact details 
• Various information leaflets