Jim Roberts on Saving Lives at Sea

The senior structure initially in my time consisted of a Chief Coastguard who was in charge nationally, then the areas had Inspectors and then they were broken down into districts with a District Officer in charge and then when you got down to the actual Stations, there were Station Officers and Auxiliaries in Charge, but that was re-organised in the 1980s and from then on we had a Chief Coastguard, the areas became regions so we had Regional Controllers and their Deputies, with District Controllers, Operation Room Managers and as we talked about earlier on, Sector Managers.