Formally known as The Terrorism (Protection of Premises Bill), Martyn’s Law is currently going through Parliament. It aims to better protect the public from terror attacks by requiring public venues to improve preparedness and have systems in place to help keep people safe. The Bill is named after Martyn Hett, one of the victims of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
The Police and Crime Commissioner, Donna Jones, and Portsmouth City Council have jointly funded Guardian Response and Incident Packs (GRIP) which are being given to seven venues across the city in support of Martyn’s Law. These are supplied by Forseti Training based in Fareham.
The Police and Crime Commissioner, Donna Jones, and Portsmouth City Council have jointly funded Guardian Response and Incident Packs (GRIP) which are being given to seven venues across the city in support of Martyn’s Law. These are supplied by Forseti Training based in Fareham.
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00:00Following the tragedy of the Manchester Arena bombings, one of the people who lost their lives is a man called Martin Hett, or a boy called Martin Hett.
00:08And his mother has campaigned for several years since those tragedies in 2017 to bring in Martin's Law.
00:14And this is really what we're here talking about today.
00:17This is about major incidents happening in town centres, in pubs, in nightclubs, in sports venues.
00:22Anywhere where you have a large collection of members of the public,
00:25and they are more likely therefore to be subjected to perhaps a terrorist incident or some kind of major incident.
00:30Now by rolling out these new grip kits, these are, they're bleed kits, they've got special advantages in them,
00:35tourniquets, things that will stem the blood if there is a laceration into the skin.
00:41And what we do know is that by having bleed kits on scenes at major incidents like this,
00:46when something does go wrong, you can not only save someone's life but you can save them losing an arm or a leg
00:51if you're able to stem the flow of the blood.
00:53What we know after the publication of the public inquiry after the Manchester Arena bombings
00:57was that if there had been more bleed kits and more packs and more first aid stuff on the scene
01:04before the ambulances got there, people's lives could have been saved.
01:07So as Police and Crime Commissioner working with Portsmouth City Council,
01:11we've been able to pay for over £7,000 to pay for these bleed kits to go into several venues across the city.
01:17And as Police and Crime Commissioner, I'm really hoping that I can roll this out across all of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
01:23Hi, I'm Councillor Steve Pelham, the Lib Dem Leader of Portsmouth City Council.
01:26This is a really, really important initiative.
01:29We know that, unfortunately, the increased level of the types of violence that we see in the night-time economy
01:36can be really life-threatening.
01:37And for those opportunities when they do happen to be able to intervene almost immediately
01:42because the venue's got a kit and there are people working within the night-time economy
01:47able to use that kit effectively, it's going to help save lives.
01:51So this initiative between Portsmouth City Council, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner
01:55and Fawcetti Training will, I'm pretty sure, sadly, save someone's life.
02:01And that's why we're doing it.
02:03Can I touch on it there? Do you feel that it's unfortunate that we have to bring in these types of initiatives?
02:08Of course we'd all like to live in a world where we didn't need to do this.
02:10We'd like to live in a world where people didn't have accidents either and we didn't need to train first aiders.
02:15These are the realities of life.
02:18And unfortunately, until something seismic changes and we see this awful violence,
02:24particularly in our night-time economy, disappear, we need these kits.
02:29So the kits contain defibrillators which are time-critical, it contains trauma bleed kits,
02:34again, time-critical elements, first aid kits and it contains pocket masks,
02:38which in the terms of resuscitation techniques, it gives people the ability to be able to perform
02:44the rescue breaths without any worry of any kind of cross-contamination.
02:47So everything a first aider would need to deal with a situation.
02:50And even the ability to handle multiple casualties by multiple first aiders, all in a small portable bag.
02:57And how important is something like this to have?
03:00Looking at upcoming legislation changes and the way that's shaping up,
03:04it's important to note there is nothing in stone yet, but looking at the procedures that are there
03:09and changes the SAA are already making to the regulator, it's massively important.
03:14It's not just that, it's about taking a moral stance and saying our venues,
03:18our places where we gather, our schools, our colleges and workplaces should be as safe as they can.
03:23Stuff like this really makes an effort to actually address the shortfalls that are currently there.
03:28And do you find it's almost a bit sad that we kind of have to have these things in place?
03:33I would love nothing more than to design these kits, have them everywhere
03:37and they never be used because they're never needed, nothing will make me happier.
03:40But fortunately I have a five-year-old son and I'm just trying to do my bit to make sure that when something happens
03:47that if he's there, he's got the best chance of being treated properly.
03:51Because it's a numbers game, something will happen, it's a case of being prepared for that
03:56and giving the best possible outcome.