Interagency coordination: Lessons learned from the 2005 London train bombings

Joseph D. Eyerman; Kevin J. Strom; Kevin J. Strom; Joseph Eyerman

Interagency coordination

Lessons learned from the 2005 London train bombings

Strom, K., & Eyerman, J. (2008). Interagency coordination: Lessons learned from the 2005 London train bombings. NIJ Journal, (261), 28-32. https://www.nij.gov/journals/261/pages/coordination.aspx

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Abstract

Editor's Note: This is the second in a two-part series on interagency coordination that examines the response to the 2005 London bombings. In Issue 260 of the NIJ Journal , the authors identified promising practices in London's multiagency response. In this article, they discuss in more detail the challenges faced by British agencies in responding to the attacks and lessons that may be learned from them.

In July 2005, terrorists carried out the first suicide attacks in modern Western Europe. At 8:50 a.m., bombs went off on three London Underground trains. A fourth bomb was detonated a short time later on a double-decker bus. The attacks were the deadliest in London since World War II, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700 others.