In the run up to The Emergency Services Show and The Emergency Tech Show, we bring you a four part mini-series focusing on what you will find when you visit the NEC on 17 and 18 September.

Released on the eve of the show, the final episode of this mini-series comes to you from the West Midlands, the home of the NEC.

Catherine Levin talks to first time exhibitors Worcestershire Medal Service and Eurox about their plans for the show. She then has a long conversation with Simon Tuhill, the new Chief Fire Officer for West Midlands Fire Service. They talk about what it's like for him joining the service and the issues they face when budgets are tight.

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In the run up to The Emergency Services Show and The Emergency Tech Show, we bring you a four part mini-series focusing on what you will find when you visit the NEC on 17 and 18 September.

Be sure to register for your free pass to the show using this link today.

In this third episode Caitlin Barr shares what's going on in our new Protecting the Protectors stage sponsored by TEXPORT.

She chats with Luke Gazzard about contaminants; Amanda Coleman about resilient communications; and catches up with Natalie Wilson and Alan Murray from the British Safety Industry Federation.

It's a great round up of what's in store at the show. Look out for the final pre show episode out on 16 September which has a West Midlands focus. Catherine interviews West Midland Fire Service Chief Fire Officer Simon Tuhill and talks to two first time exhibitors from the Birmingham area.

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In the run up to The Emergency Services Show and The Emergency Tech Show, we bring you a four part mini-series focusing on what you will find when you visit the NEC on 17 and 18 September.

Be sure to register for your free pass to the show using this link today.

In this second episode Catherine Levin checks out the technology solutions in The Emergency Tech Show. She starts off by chatting with host, Rich Preston to look at the great content on the Emergency Tech Leaders' Stage and finds him working out in Washington DC for the BBC but keen to return to the NEC for his third appearance.

The mornings are dedicated to police technology and on the pod, Catherine chats with Tony Blaker who is from the National Police Chiefs' Council. They talk about the challenges facing policing and look at solving 'wicked problems.'

On the supplier side, we hear from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Windracers.

It's a great round up of what's in store at the show. Look out for next week's episode where Caitlin gets into the detail about this year's new stage called Protecting the Protectors.

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In the run up to The Emergency Services Show and The Emergency Tech Show, we bring you a four part mini-series focusing on what you will find when you visit the NEC on 17 and 18 September.

Be sure to register for your free pass to the show using this link today.

Starting off with Lanna looking at health and wellbeing, we hear about a new fitness area featuring experts from fire and police; we see who is in the Collaboration Zone and speaking on the People & Skills stage.

Lanna chats with Ange Everington about fire fitness and learns about the work of Mind over Mountains and the benefits of being outside, learning how to use nature to manage health and wellbeing.

Talking to Dr Richard Duggins, Lanna finds out about his research into burn out and what's in store for his session with Police Superintendents' Association President, Nick Smart.

It's a great round up of what's in store at the show. Look out for next week's episode where Catherine gets into the detail about technology and why the host of The Emergency Tech Leaders' Stage is coming back from Washington DC to join us in Birmingham.

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In this special bonus episode to complete this season of the pod, Catherine Levin talks to Jonathan Webb and Gareth Lewis who run the Anti-Violence Collaborative Wales. It's a great follow from the Adam Hopper episode earlier in this season.

Jonathan and Gareth work for NHS Wales and there they are taking a multi-agency approach to dealing with violence against staff from police, fire and ambulance services in Wales. Giving staff the confidence to report violence is a key part of the Collaborative's work and here they talk about how they are doing that and the importance to track data to know if they are being successful.

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In this episode, Catherine Levin talks to Rachel Tuffin, interim Director of the Centre for Police Productivity at the College of Policing.

They get into the detail about data, evidence and research needed to underpin the delivery of the government's safer streets mission. Touching on body worn video, live facial recognition and hotspot policing, they discuss how policing can innovate, scale up and adopt at a national level when the 43 force policing model in England and Wales means they can all choose what approaches to take.

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In this episode, Catherine Levin talks to Sam Burton, Deputy Chief Fire Officer for the Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service. Sam joins the pod to talk about leadership, gender and her work for the UK Rescue Organisation as she reflects on a 20+ year career in fire.

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In this episode, Lanna Deamer talks to Alison Blakely, Deputy Chief Paramedic for the London Ambulance Service. Alison talks about her approach to leadership based on 20 years at the capitals ambulance service, and how being a people person is core to her approach.

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