Head of Preparedness for a Category 1 responder. PhD from Swansea University about tear gas and memory. Gardening, BSB and Ospreys fan always. No poker face.
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Dr Helen Turner retweeted
@CBRNEsteve I’m sure you have this already, but I thought it was Instagramable
Cc @LucyGoBag @hellturn @ElParker19 @SamLMontano @Rubonist @RobGrayston @HasisD @aj66inuk @DanielGDresner @NatPrepCom @darrenpjones
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Dr Helen Turner retweeted
Mar 17
Much necessary scrutiny of the language, the words, the exclamations of senior police officers this week. I talk about language of emergency response here open.spotify.com/episode/4X3…
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Dr Helen Turner retweeted
Feb 21
Not Enid Blyton’s best
Feb 21
Five taken to hospital after gas explosion at farm bbc.in/4qSIzB5
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Jan 14
Attention police forces who think that integrating AI, particularly Co Pilot, is some sort of quantum leap forward and only a positive, whilst using it to justify cuts to personnel and their corresponding (human) expertise… this will be the tip of the iceberg.
Jan 14
BREAK: West Mids police chief constable Craig Guildford offers “profound apology” and admits that fictitious Maccabi/West Ham match included in police “intelligence” used to justify ban ***was*** generated by AI.
Guildford said the opposite to MPs.
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Dr Helen Turner retweeted
11 Sep 2025
Now out in @millennjournal, 'Memory Politics After Disaster: Recovery, Embodied Trauma and the Covid-19 Pandemic' by Amy Cortvriend @LucyGoBag @jenny_edkins and yours truly. What an honour to co-author with these superstars, again! tinyurl.com/mhv3p2s9
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The greatest of them all 👑
His rivals knew it. The fans knew it. We all knew it. @jonathanrea wasn’t just a Champion — he was the Champion 🤩👉 tinyurl.com/yau2au3n
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23 Aug 2025
What… and I cannot stress this enough… the actual fuck 👀
‘It’s gruesome’: fears of grave-robbing amid rise in sale of human remains theguardian.com/science/2025…
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Dr Helen Turner retweeted
20 Aug 2025
*saves file on computer*
OneDrive: got it
me: where?
OneDrive: what
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15 Jul 2025
Two bits of risk perception in one picture: considering tsunamis and power outage plans!
15 Jul 2025
Theory: Emergency managers are never NOT on the lookout for things like this! QT with your best ‘I’m not working, but…’ pics!
ALT A tsunami evacuation sign
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Dr Helen Turner retweeted
14 Jul 2025
Following last Monday’s poignant anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, we’d like to reflect on what happened that day from not only the perspective of a survivor but someone whose job it was to protect the public.
Read his recollection here: ukresilienceacademy.org/reso…
#77Bombings
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Dr Helen Turner retweeted
7 Jul 2025
Today marks 20 years since the 7/7 London bombings, which killed 52 people and injured over 770 others.
We remember the victims and all affected, and honour the bravery of emergency services, especially BTP officers and staff who worked tirelessly in the aftermath.
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Dr Helen Turner retweeted
24 Jun 2025
BREAKING: New national security strategy warns that the UK must “actively prepare” for war on the homeland for the 1st time in many years
“For the first time in many years, we have to actively prepare for the possibility of the UK homeland coming under direct threat, potentially in a wartime scenario”
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18 Jun 2025
It’s reductive and disappointing. The exclusion of other Category 1 organisations (not to mention non-Home Office Police Forces) from this work seems completely at odds with the Pollock Report and @jesip999’s own fundamental guiding principles.
18 Jun 2025
The new 1-min videos represent 3 more @jesip999 outputs that are almost exclusively focused on the 3 x 'blue light' services
How will other responder orgs be able to argue for / justify investment in training when such a powerful 'blue light' framing effectively excludes them?
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18 Jun 2025
Over the years I’ve queried how JESIP intend to improve their integration of BTP, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency or Cat 2 responders and it feels like it just sits in their “too difficult” box…
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13 Jun 2025
It feels more than a little ghoulish that the most popular download packs on Microsoft Flight Simulator right now are for an Air India 787 and Ahmedabad airport… is this a new post-incident phenomenon, emergency planners?
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Dr Helen Turner retweeted
7 Jun 2025
No Senior TT, and I'm thankful for it the-race.com/tt/senior-tt-20…
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7 Jun 2025
Emergency planners and event planners could learn a lot from the Clerk and organisers of the TT; especially on how to manage significant and changeable risks and communicate decisions effectively and sensitively.
7 Jun 2025
UPDATE: Following the Course Inspection Lap and having consulted with a number of competitors, the Clerk of the Course has confirmed that, due to high and gusting winds in a different direction to those over the rest of the TT fortnight, conditions are not suitable for racing.
As a result, the Senior TT Race has been cancelled.
The Clerk of the Course would like to thank everyone for their co-operation throughout the 2025 Isle of Man TT Races. Further comment will be issued in due course.
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Dr Helen Turner retweeted
5 Jun 2025
Okay comms folks! The world historic news dump window is NOW OPEN.
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