A Hughes Safety Showers portable HARD shelter featured in the national press recently when it was used to protect an extensive excavation by police scene examiners.
The Stockport based company’s shelter was used as the police worked throughout the night under portable flood lights to dig up a garden in Streatham, London. It followed a swoop on a four bedroomed house in a huge counter-terrorism operation involving thirty officers. The team included specialists in chemical and biological threats who were responding to fears that the house was being used to hide chemical weapons.
Left: Hughes Shelter as featured in the Daily Mail
Preserving a potential crime scene is vital in the collection of evidence. The Hughes HARD shelter has proved to be ideal. It is lightweight, easy to carry, tough and durable. A comprehensive range of ancillary equipment extends the range of operations. This includes generators, portable lighting and heating equipment and water storage all available from Hughes to make the HARD shelter totally self-reliant and independent of mains services.
Simplicity is the key to the shelters success and essential for rapid deployment especially where delays could result in the loss of vital evidence. It can be erected by two people and ready for use in less than 3 minutes.
Left: The Hughes Hard Shelter
Minimal maintenance is also an important feature. The frame is a collapsible one-piece construction that unfolds with the cover already in place and after use it remains attached as the frame is folded for storage. This prevents it from contacting the floor and becoming dirty or damaged, and therefore reduces cleaning time and extends its life.
The frame’s unique combination of light weight and strength ensure the shelter can stand up to some pretty rough treatment and can be used repeatedly in harsh conditions. By simply changing the inner ‘pod’ the shelter can be transformed for a variety of emergency roles. In addition to the police using it at scenes of crime, Fire & Rescue Services use them as holding centres for casualties and command and control centres at major incidents. They can also use them for mass decontamination following a chemical accident or terrorist attack. Military and humanitarian relief organisations have also discovered many uses for this robust yet versatile shelter.
For more information visit: Hughes website
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