ESJCR IOM - Emergency Services Joint Control Room

IOM Dept. of Home Affairs, Communications Division - ESJCR mission statement is "to respond to people in distress as quickly and efficiently as possible"

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As you can imagine, our Control Room team today are very busy dealing with various emergencies and calls for help.

Downed trees which are causing travel disruption should be reported to the Isle of Man Department of Infrastructure on 672000

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Here are our statistics for October 2024
📡 2483 Events
🚓 1146 Police Events
🚑 1211 Ambulance Events
🚒 126 Fire Events
☎ Total of 2209 Emergency Calls
☎ 16,901 Non-999 Calls
📡 119053 Radio Transmissions
☎️ Average time to answer a 999 call is 1.6 seconds

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certainly is the icing on the cake after a brilliant International Control Room Week

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Here are a couple of pictures of the cheque presentation held at the Control Room this afternoon!

One picture shows the team at ESJCR presenting the cheque for the final amount to Barry from Great North Air Ambulance Service with Geoff from the RAOB Buffs Club.

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we top this total for next year and who will be the lucky charity nominated by our team!?

Thank you so much to every single person who has been involved in this fundraiser from donating prizes, selling and buying tickets, baking cakes, supporting us, drumming up business

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result.

With the amount of prizes up for grabs it will take us a while to contact everybody who has won so please bear with us whilst we get through the list.

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Drum roll please............................

The money has been counted and the raffle has been drawn and we have raised a total amount of £7157.06 for Great North Air Ambulance Service as part of our International Control Room Week celebrations.

We are absolutely gobsmacked

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at the amount of money raised and we can't thank everybody enough for supporting our fundraising efforts.

The amount is made up from the raffle, bake sale and a very generous donation from the RAOB Buffs Club of £500.00 to our fundraiser.

We are pinching ourselves with the

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Accredited Centre of Excellence for our medical call taking and dispatch so we will happily claim that as our 'superpower'

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It takes a certain kind of person to work in an Emergency Control Room and we have hundreds of Control Room colleagues up and down the Country working in different Control Rooms.

We have recently been recognised by the International Acadamy of Emergency Dispatch as an

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and start baking ready for the bake sale on Friday!

later on today we will be having a visit from one of the frontline Paramedics from the Great North Air Ambulance Service who we are raising money for

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We decorated the Control Room yesterday, handed out goodies from the sponsors of Control Room Week Sopra Steria, created some of our social media content, picked up the last of the raffle prizes to be donated (watch this space for an updated list!), now to get more tickets sold

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Service since March 2022.

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It was an absolute pleasure this evening to invite Lee and Tom from Great North Air Ambulance Service to the ESJCR for a tour and to provide an update to our fundraising.

Lee is the Head of Operations for Cumbria & Isle of Man at GNAAS and it was great to show him and his

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celebrations of International Control Room Week whilst they are here.

Did you know?................................ GNAAS average 6 call outs per day across the UK and Isle of Man - they have been covering the Isle of Man as the official emergency Air Ambulance

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colleague Tom around the Control Room and also get a deeper insight into the operations at the GNAAS Headquarters - it was all a rouse to get a free trip in a helicopter really!!

Lee and Tom are on the Island for a few days and its been lovely to invite them to join in the

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charity raffle - have you bought your tickets yet?

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We know International Control Room Week is nearly here when our box of goodies arrives and we start receiving guests into the Control Room.

Today we had a visit from the Hon. Jane Poole-Wilson MHK - Minister for Justice and Home Affairs who brought along some treats and helped

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us make an early start to the celebrations for #InternationalControlRoomWeek

It's always a pleasure to welcome the Minister up to the Control Room and we can't wait to share what we are up to over the next week including the grand total we will have raised from the