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A Primer of Command and Control
Open letter to the Editor
Dear Editor
A Primer of Command and Control
As far as I am able to determine, there is still, in 2007, not a published work describing and relating the various aspects of public safety command and control. That was the situation which I recognised back in 1995, when I retired from a senior position in the Metropolitan Police Department of Technology, having been in and around C&C for nearly 20 years.
So over the next few years, I wrote a primer/monograph on the subject, rather more than 30,000 words. Comments on the draft from several people in and around the subject were favourable but I had a frustrating time being strung along by potential publishers (and BAPCO!) but getting nowhere.
When I was diagnosed, in 2002, with an incurable disease, I decided to devote my energies to more personally rewarding activities. However, the draft material, Computer Aided Dispatch in the Emergency Services, is still with my computer and the gap in the market still seems to exist.
I feel that out there, among the BAPCO Journal’s readership, there must be somebody who would have the knowledge, the time, and the commitment to take my draft as a framework, update it to current techniques and thinking, and put it out to public access in one or more forms - web, CD-ROM, or paper. (Equally, there might also be a publisher just looking for such a work?).
If anyone feels ready, willing, and qualified to take this on, I would love to hear from them with contact details and perhaps key CV points (in case I get overwhelmed by the response!). They will have my full co-operation and reasonable commitment of time to follow through.
Yours faithfully
George Sudbury / gcsud@talktalk.net
