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Network Strategy Review by [Jason Tindley](https://www.lpcinternational.co.uk/case-studies/author/jason-tindley) ![home office case study.jpg](https://www.lpcinternational.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Case%20Studies/home%20office%20case%20study.jpg?width=750&height=291&name=home%20office%20case%20study.jpg) LPC was appointed to review how the total EFS fleet (several thousands of vehicles and appliances) should be deployed to a number of regional locations around the United Kingdom, such that the appropriate numbers of each type of appliance could respond to different types of emergency (up to and including a nuclear attack) in any United Kingdom location within specified response times.  ![home-office-1](https://www.lpcinternational.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/home-office-1.png?width=248&height=372&name=home-office-1.png)Using our own in-house distribution modelling tool, DiPS was used to determine how many regional locations should be used and where they should be located (bearing in mind that they should operate from bases that are as remote as possible from vulnerable centres), and how many appliances of each type should be deployed at each base. 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