Success for Extended Floodline Warnings Direct Pilot

On Wednesday 1st February 2012, Cheshire Local Resilience Forum, and colleagues in Central Government, tested whether people could be alerted by phone if there was a major emergency in the area where they live or work.

A recorded message was sent to over 5000 land line telephones in the Ellesmere Port area of Cheshire. Extensive publicity to encourage local people to listen to the message and give feedback on what they thought about it was very successful. The number of successful alerts issued (phones answered) was 3534.

Over 781 calls were acknowledged, i.e. the recipient pressed a telephone key to opt in or out of the evaluation; 239 opted in and 453 opted out. In addition a further 150 people were recruited to participate in feedback during two information days held in the local Asda shopping centre in the preceding two weeks.

If you received the recorded message and would like to let us know your views, please contact us on 0300 123 7031, or email lrf.queries@cheshire.pnn.police.uk.

For further information on the trial please click here to visit the Cabinet Office website.

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