Narrowband  |  2025-03-25

SINE Tests Fixed Incident Communications Kit at Bornholm Airport

Source: The Critical Communications Review | Gert Jan Wolf editor

From 1 March 2025, the emergency services on the island of Bornholm, Denmark have introduced a new procedure where a fixed incident kit is used in the event of an aircraft-related incident at the airport.

There was a large number of emergency personnel and intense communication on the SINE (Danish Pubic Safety Emergency Communications Network) radios at the Danish Bornholm Airport in mid-March, when an alert exercise was held for the emergency authorities on the island.

From 1 March 2025, the emergency services on the isle of Bornholm, have introduced a new procedure where a fixed incident kit (SKS) is used in the event of an aircraft-related incident at the airport.

Using the fixed incident kit ensures that the emergency management team from the police, rescue services and health services communicate on the fixed SKS already during the advance and can therefore immediately communicate with the emergency personnel at the airport and other emergency actors on the SINE radio network.

The procedure for using the fixed incident kit has been part of the Bornholm emergency response plans since March 1, and it is important that all sectors are now familiar with the plan, as it affects interdisciplinary communication on the SINE TETRA radio network.

During the alert exercise, we tested the new procedure for communication during the approach to an aircraft-related incident at the airport. We trained our plan kit and the sector-specific action cards, and it was a good experience to experience how quickly we can communicate with each other and especially with the staff at the airport when we start using the fixed scene kit.

says Police Commissioner from Bornholm Police Tomasz Kluczewicz, who was the police response leader during the exercise.

It is the emergency response teams on Bornholm who have requested to be assigned a fixed SKS to Bornholm Airport, and TOAS has subsequently discussed and agreed to the request. A fixed SKS contains up to five talk groups, just like the commonly assigned SKS.