A Long Reply to a Short Post on Linkedin: JESIP
This isn’t an article, it isn’t really a blog (although I will post it as such elsewhere). It is really a comment on a recent helpful post on Linkedin by Rob Davis on the subject of the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP). Alas my comment is too long winded for the normal format. Before saying anything else I would mention that some posters have suggested that Mr Davis has pre-empted his own research findings. This doesn’t worry me – some things are obvious even early on in research and any final conclusions that the author reaches will be subject to the rigours of the academic system that surrounds such high awards. The fact that JESIP doesn’t always work is a well documented fact. JESIP is a simple, indeed a worthy, statement of good intent. The principles are, in one sense, not capable of being doubted. Perhaps this is the reason that criticism is sometimes treated as heresy. As a member of the public my expectation that responding agenci