Peter Power
Peter Power, a former Scotland Yard official, has been Managing Director of Visor Consultants Limited since 1995.
Visor Consultants works to prepare organisations for risks and threats they might face. According to Workplace Law Network it uses scenario-based exercises to prepare as well as crisis management and business continuity workshops, corporate resilience courses and motivation sessions. [1]
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Background
Power was a police officer from 1978-1992, with the Metropolitan Police and later Dorset Police. During his service, Power was a sergeant with the Special Patrol Group, which became a focus for complaints about police tactics during the 1981 Brixton Riots. [2] He later coordinated the emergency services efforts at the Kings Cross Fire in November 1987, in which 27 people died. [3]
- Peter Power appears regularly on television and radio news programmes in connection with terrorism and security items. His status as an expert is based upon his widely advertised experiences in the Metropolitan Police: the Brixton Riots, the Libyan embassy siege, the Oxford Circus and Kings Cross Underground fires, and the development of the Gold/Silver/Bronze command structure.[4]
7/7 London Bombings drill exercise coincidence
On 7th July 2005, the day of the London bombings, Peter Power was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Drive Time show.
- Power told the host that at the exact same time that the London bombings were taking place, his company was running a 1,000 person strong exercise which drilled the London Underground being bombed at the exact same locations, at the exact same times, as happened in real life.[5]
- Power was quoted as saying "At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now"[6]
Listen to Peter Power's Radio 5 Live Drivetime Interview [7]
Since the controversy, Peter Power refuses to answer questions regarding the coincidence.[ref?]
Affiliations
- Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness -special adviser
- BC Institute London Forum -special adviser
- UK Register of Expert Witnesses
- University of Reading - occasional lecturer
- University of Southampton - occasional lecturer
- Chartered Management Institute - fellow
- Business Continuity Institute - fellow
- Emergency Planning Society - fellow
- Institute of Risk Management - member
- Guild of Freemen of the City of London- member
- Award winner for BC ‘Personality of the Year’ 2000 and ‘Lifetime Achievement’ 2006
Resources
- 7/7 London bombings emergency drill rehearsal coincidence.Peter Power's Radio 5 Live Drivetime Interview [9]
Notes
- ↑ Workplace Law Network http://www.workplacelaw.net/profiles/affiliate/id/68 accessed 14 February 2008
- ↑ BBC News, Brixton ablaze: 25 years on, 10 April 2006, accessed 3 November 2010.
- ↑ Peter Power Witness, BBC News, 18 November 2005.
- ↑ J7: The July 7th Truth Campaign http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/j7-exclusive-peter-power-dorset-police-suspension.html accessed 14 February 2008
- ↑ We Are Change UK http://100777.com/node/1789 accessed on 14 February 2008
- ↑ Prison Planet http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Jul05/160705web_of_deceit.html accessed 14 February 2008
- ↑ MP3 of BBC Radio 5 Live interview available at: http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/media/r5.live.peter.power.exercise.mp3, accessed 3 November 2010.
- ↑ Visor Consultants Peter Power, Managing Director, accessed 3 November 2010.
- ↑ MP3 of BBC Radio available at: http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/media/r5.live.peter.power.exercise.mp3, accessed 3 November 2010.
