0 in Britain, the highest or strategic level of a three-level system for organizing the way a police, military, or other operation is controlled, especially in an emergency situation:
Gold command has overall responsibility and authority for the strategy and any tactical parameters that silver or bronze commanders should follow.
Gold Command works from an operations and control room which is opened for major public occasions and counter-terrorist operations.
He is "gold command" for the investigation, overseeing the strategy and direction of investigations.
The training exercise envisages children taken hostage by terrorists, and a number of police chiefs assume the Gold Command - ultimate responsibility for co-ordinating the response.
A spokeswoman at South Yorkshire's Gold Command flood centre said: "With more rain forecast, the battle is not over."
