A gold–silver–bronze command structure is a command hierarchy used for major operations by the emergency services of the United Kingdom.
Some practitioners use the term strategic–tactical–operational command structure instead, but the different categories are equivalent.
[1] In some cases, the national government (via the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms) will assume ultimate control and act as a "platinum" level.
[2] The effectiveness of elements of interoperability and communications with this structure have been called into question by the Pollock Report of 2013.
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