Emergency services
We have set up a Government Liaison Unit (GLU) to act as a single point of contact for government agencies, such as police and defence forces, to provide help in the following areas:
- Responding to requests for name and address information, call-traces and location searches, in accordance with the law.
- Supporting the Marine Casualty Investigation Board as part of its investigations into accidents at sea.
- Offering a 24-hour call service to the Irish Police Force for emergencies - usually involving the location of a missing person. The GLU estimates that this service helped to save 25 lives in 2005.
Issues in brief
O2 plc
- Safety first
- What are the issues?
- Keeping a close watch
- A policy of child protection
- Putting a ring around bullies
- Assisting emergency response on July 7
- What are location-based services?
- A matter of life and death
- Pictures and the law
- Collective action on spam
- When should we intercept?
- Privacy at what price?
- Data retention and protection
- A question of balance
