Hundreds of troops are being trained, the Cabinet Office said
Hundreds of troops are being trained to drive ambulances and fight fires in the event of public sector strike action, the Government has said. Around 2,000 military personnel and civil servants are being trained to support a range of services – including Border Force at airports and ports, the Cabinet Office said on Sunday.
“The priority over the coming weeks is to protect the public who may need access to emergency services support and limit disruption as much as possible, particularly at a time when increased numbers of people will be travelling for the festive period and NHS services are under huge pressure due to the impact of Covid.”
“We have a very strong team at Cobra who are doing a lot of the work in looking at what we need to do to minimise the disruption to people’s lives. We have been looking at the military, we are looking at a specialist response force which we have actually set up a number of years ago. “The priority over the coming weeks is to protect the public who may need access to emergency services support, and limit disruption as much as possible, particularly at a time when increased numbers of people will be travelling for the festive period and NHS services are under huge pressure due to the impact of Covid,” it said.
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