Arup has been appointed to the UK Home Office’s ground breaking £1bn Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP), in order to enhance critical emergency services capability and improve public safety.
Arup will support KBR Ltd to deliver a modernised communications and data service using 4G technology. This is the first time emergency services operations will be managed at scale across a commercial network anywhere in the world.
Arup will provide project management support, technical assurance and specialist training services to a network of approx. 300,000 staff across the Police, Fire and Ambulance Services and Trusts in the UK.
The new system, called the Emergency Service Network (ESN), will provide frontline responders with extensive communication and data coverage, high resilience and appropriate security. This is to ensure that the emergency services, along with the other civil contingency authorities, are able to protect the public and save lives, even under the most challenging circumstances.