Headquarters 4 Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East

Military Aid to the Civil Authorities

Lieutenant Colonel Graham WhitmoreJoint Regional Liaison Officer

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Principles of MACA

● Military aid should only be provided when the need for someone to act is clear and where other options have been discounted by the civil responder

● Where the civil authority lacks capability and it is unreasonable or prohibitively expensive to expect it to develop one

● Where the civil authority has the capability, but the need to act is urgent and it lacks readily available resources

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Military Aid to the Civil Authorities(MACA)

● Military Aid to the Civil Power (MACP)● Training and Logistic Assistance to the Civil Power

● Military Aid to Government Departments (MAGD)

● Military Aid to the Civil Community (MACC)

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Military Aid to the Civil Power (MACP)

The provision of military assistance (armed if appropriate) to the Civil Power in its maintenance of law, order and public safety using specialist capabilities or equipment, in situations beyond the capability of the Civil Power. For matters of public safety, support will routinely be to the police as the lead organisation; this includes specific security operations.

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Training and Logistic Assistance to Civil Power

● Non-operational support – approved by Bde Comd or RAF Stn Comd

● Operational Support – approved by MoD

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Military Aid to Government Departments (MAGD)

Assistance provided by the Armed Forces on urgent work of national importance, or in

maintaining supplies and services essential to the life, health and safety of the community

…..at the request of another Government Department

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MAGD

● Fire

● Ambulance

● Animal Diseases

● Fuel Shortages

● Emergency Mortuaries

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MACC

● The provision of unarmed military assistance:● To civil authorities in an emergency caused by a

natural disaster or major incident● The decision to furnish such aid is delegated to

local commanders when there is a genuine emergency

● Examples are military SAR, floods in Yorkshire and Gloucestershire and snow in Edinburgh

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Military Contribution to Resilience

The Regional Army Chain of Command,

support staff and Regional Liaison

Officers

Pillar 1

National Communications

Pillar 2

Force elements, both regular and

reserve. Specialists and

generalists

Pillar 3

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Appropriate Government Dept

MOD Ops Dir Team

Gold Command or OGD RequestPrinciples:• Effects based• Formal request?

Can we (Mil)? Should we (Pol)?

Principles:• SJC(UK)/SC scope• Spare capacity?• Costs?• Duration?• C2?• Legality?• Proportionality?• Presentational?• Media?• Likelihood of success? Min Sub

Issue Wng O orPlanning Directive

Min ApprovalIssue Execute Directive

Unit(s) deploys

Liaison with JRLO

Yes

Warn Ops Dir via SJC (UK)

Inform Ministerof Outcome!

Incident or Crisis

MACA Request Procedures

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The New Approach

● Under emergency circumstances, military support that would previously have been charged at full costs will now be charged at marginal costs;

● The armed forces should be more closely engaged in emergency preparedness and response activity, both locally and nationally;

● Relevant doctrine and training for local responders and the armed forces should be reviewed to reflect a stronger role for the armed forces in supporting civil authorities and affected communities, and to encourage their early use, where appropriate, in an emergency;

● Local multi-agency contingency plans should be amended to include a presumption that Strategic Coordination Groups will actively consider military support options in the early stages of the response.

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CostsDefinition Activity/Detail Cost to SCG

JRLO Assessment Advice from JRLO to SCG Chair on the military capabilities and resources available to support emergency response

Zero-cost

Military Assessment Team Advice from a small military assessment team to the SCG Chair on the military capabilities and resources available to support emergency response

Zero-cost

Military Response Team(s) The deployed military resource, carrying out agreed activities at the request of the civilian authorities

Marginal-cost

Immediate Threat to Life MACC Category A arrangements for immediate intervention to prevent loss of life

Zero-cost

Planned Support Non-emergency, planned/routine support will continue to be charged in full unless MoD judge that there is a military benefit which offsets the cost

Full-cost

Training & Exercising Participation in relevant training or exercising at LRF level may be provided at up-to marginal cost, proportionate to the activities/resources used.

Up to marginal-cost

Exceptional Circumstance HMG may meet the full cost of response in exceptional circumstances, at Ministerial discretion

Zero-cost

Headquarters 4 Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East

The New Approach

● Under emergency circumstances, military support that would previously have been charged at full costs will now be charged at marginal costs;

● The armed forces should be more closely engaged in emergency preparedness and response activity, both locally and nationally;

● Relevant doctrine and training for local responders and the armed forces should be reviewed to reflect a stronger role for the armed forces in supporting civil authorities and affected communities, and to encourage their early use, where appropriate, in an emergency;

● Local multi-agency contingency plans should be amended to include a presumption that Strategic Coordination Groups will actively consider military support options in the early stages of the response.

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