Manual — ULTRA room
The room during the operation
The wall with several organisations
The lead's room is still the one you know from the main manual — the tiled wall, the list of live feeds, Listen, Snapshot — with one visual difference: the tiles of the participating organisations carry their organisation badge, so at a glance you know whose eyes you are looking through.
The operations map brings together everyone's positions: bodycams and drones, your own and the participants', each with its trail. In a square with three organisations in the field, it is the map, not memory, that says who is covering what. With several distant incidents the director bar picks what to follow — all units, a zone (groups form on their own by proximity), a single unit, or free hand — and the lead's markers (the fire, the stage, the command post) stay in front of the whole room, second-monitor window included.
What stays per-organisation
Two tools deliberately remain with the organisation that owns the channel, even inside a joint operation:
- Replay: rewinding and downloading clips is possible only on your own organisation's channels — a participant's archive remains its own;
- orders to bodycams: the room sends messages to its own bodycams. Each organisation commands its own chain; coordination between organisations goes from the lead to the organisation, not from the lead straight to someone else's volunteers.
This is the design, not a limitation: a joint room that bypassed the participants' chain of command would be accepted by no organisation — and rightly so.
Alerts
An MD (man down) triggered from a bodycam arrives in the room of the organisation that owns the channel, with the position and the signed take-charge, as always. The lead sees the channel live and the position on the map: shaping the response — who sends whom — remains a matter of coordination between rooms.