0 in Britain, the lowest or operational level of a three-level system for organizing the way a police, military, or other operation is controlled, especially in an emergency situation:
Bronze command is responsible for carrying out functional or geographical responsibilities related to the tactical plan that comes from silver command.
Bronze command must have a clear understanding of the silver commander’s tactical plan, i.e. what they are required to deliver, in what timescale and with what resources.
During the incident, bronze command was situated on the fire ground and was a fire service control unit.
If an incident is widespread geographically, bronze command may be spread across different locations.
The term operational refers to those who will provide the main operational response (sometimes referred to as the Bronze Command) in an incident.