The exchange of incident information between key organisations such as the Police Force, Highways England, Ambulance Service, Fire service is critical to saving lives and keeping members of the public safe.

The exchange of key information between organisations using command and control systems that manage incidents and deployments are used through formatted messages using extensible markup Language (XML).

This technical document aims to describe the implementation guidelines for exchanging information between multiple command and control systems between different organisations (Multi Agency Incident Transfer (MAIT), describe communications and data management issues that need to be considered, whilst providing suitable implementation guidance as well as describing interfaces available and their XML’s.