Category 1 and 2 organisations form Local Resilience Forums (based on police areas) which will help co-ordination and co-operation between responders at the local level. More information about the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the National perspective is available from:- http://www.ukresilience.info

In Dorset, the Local resilience Forum is structured into a strategic policy group, with a planning group supporting. Additionally, a number of groups operate compliment the work of the Dorset Local resilience Forum for example the Bournemouth and Poole Resilience Group that has specifically looked at the duties placed upon the Category one responders. Dorset Police is a key member of the BPRG, a multi-agency group committed to making the Bournemouth and Poole conurbation a safer place by ensuring that we and our partners can respond effectively when incidents do occur. The BPRG have developed an electronic "Community Risk Register" (CRR) which seeks to identify those risk areas within the conurbation which need to be addressed by partners in order to reduce the risk wherever possible, and be better able to respond to the effects of the risk if an incident occurs.

A dedicated site for the Bournemouth and Poole Resilience Group is established at http://www.bprg.org.uk

An electronic community risk register initially developed by BPRG has been further developed to include pan Dorset risks.

The importance of risk assessment is emphasised by the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA). The CCA places a legal duty on responders to undertake risk assessments and maintain them in a Community Risk Register, and publish this register. Risks in this context are those that could result in a major emergency. This Community Risk Register is the first step in the emergency planning process; it ensures that the plans that are developed are proportionate to the risk.