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to provide a special ambulance service;
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to ensure the unimpeded movement of ambulances and
other vehicles to move the injured to hospitals. In that
regard, a safe corridor for evacuation of persons to hospital
was identified;
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to establish a field hospital in close proximity to the
community.
CDS Saunders stated unequivocally that this plan was intended for all and was
not for the exclusive use of the security forces.
FINDINGS
7.50.
Given the experience of armed conflict and confrontation in
2001, and especially in light of the Intelligence available and known to
the security forces in 2010, the consequences of an armed
confrontation, could and should have been anticipated. In order to
ensure the adequacy of measures to be put in place, what was required
was a sound method of estimating the likely demand for services for
treatment of the injured. There was no evidence given to the
Commission of estimates of demand for services. The arrangements
made, including the provision of services and procedures for accessing
these services would then have been based on those estimates.
7.51.
Having regard also to the history of violent confrontation
between the residents of Tivoli Gardens and the JCF in particular, and
the fatalities of 2001, we were surprised that DCP Hinds did not
contemplate any injuries or deaths in the 2010 operation. We find it
hard to accept that a plan which ostensibly took into account the
interests of both civilian and security personnel, could have been based
on an estimate of zero injuries. In fairness to DCP Hinds however, he