Jane's Sentinel Security Assessment - UK: Internal Affairs

Jane's Sentinel Security Assessment - UK: Internal Affairs: "However, emergency planners admit that Britain could not cope with a major attack on the scale of the Madrid bombings. Patrick Cunningham, president of the Emergency Planning Society, complained that emergency services suffer from a huge lack of equipment and staff training. Moreover, co-operation between national governments and agencies in Europe on tracking the threat posed by terrorists was poor before the March 2004 Madrid attacks, and will improve only slowly. "