Strategic Response Arrangements (Gold Command)

Question 1

Who can implement the SRA?

Answer 1

Duty Brigade Manager
Commissioner 
Deputy Commissioner Safety and Assurance
Deputy Commissioner Operations
Director of Corporate Services 

The decision to activate the Brigade’s SRAshould ideally be taken collectively by the CCG. However, if urgent action is required and delays in waiting for CCG to convene would negatively
impact on the Brigade’s immediate emergency response, e.g. during an MTA, then the above officers have the authority to individually activate elements of the SRA.

Question 2

What are the seven core structures that constitute the SRA?

Answer 2

(a) Commissioner’s Continuity Group (CCG)
(b) Duty Assistant Commissioner (AC1)
(c) Gold Commander (Fire) (GC)
(d) Brigade Coordination Centre (BCC)
(e) Brigade Coordinating Manager (BCM)
(f) Gold Support Team (GST)
(g) Continuity Management Team (CMT)

Question 3

Which of the seven SRA structures should ideally be stood up initially?

Answer 3

The Commissioner’s Continuity Group (the CCG)
(although for some fast-paced incidents, e.g. Marauding terrorist attacks(MTAs), it may be
necessary for the duty AC1 to stand-up other elements of the SRA prior to convening the CCG).

Question 4

Who decides what structures of the SRA will be stood up?

Answer 4

Normally the duty

AC1 in consultation with the CCG.

Question 5

How does the SRA relate to the gold/silver/bronze command structure?

Answer 5

The SRA is managed according to the Brigade’s Gold Command Structure, which sets out three
distinct response levels: Strategic (Gold), Tactical (Silver) and Operational (Bronze). Strategy and key decisions are agreed at the Strategic level, managed and coordinated at the Tactical level and implemented at the Operational level.

Question 6

Under what circumstances is an SRA structure likely to be stood up?

Answer 6

As a general rule, the decision to activate the SRA will be taken if the Brigade declares a Major
Incident, for which one or more of the following conditions will normally apply:

• the incident, event or situation requires an enhanced level of management coordination;
• the incident, event or situation poses a serious threat to human welfare;
• the incident, event or situation threatens serious damage to the environment;
• the incident, event or situation constitutes as an act of war or terrorism and threatens human
welfare, the environment and/or national security; and/or
• the incident, event or situation threatens the organisation’s ability to perform its critical
functions.