New Dimension :: Civil Protection Strategic Projects and Specialist Response

New Dimension Programme

The Government instigated the New Dimension programme soon after the September 11^th 2001 attacks on the US. It was immediately recognised that multiple large scale attacks on the UK would be difficult to cope with effectively by individual Fire and Rescue Services.

The New Dimension programme is intended to provide a range of equipment, people and procedures to allow a co-ordinated national response to catastrophic events of various types.

By providing these new facilities the UK Fire Services are becoming better prepared to deal with extreme situations and national support arrangements mean we will be better able to cope with the worst types of incident imaginable.

Many of the facilities detailed in these Civil Resilience pages are a direct result of what the government has provided through the New Dimension project.