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Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR, often referred to as COBRA)〔(Emergency Response - Central Government Arrangements ) - cabinetoffice.gov.uk〕〔(Emergencies: the legal and operational framework ) - cabinetoffice.gov.uk〕 refers to the location for a type of crisis response committee set up to coordinate the actions of bodies within the Government of the United Kingdom in response to instances of national or regional crisis, or during events abroad with major implications for Britain. The composition of a COBR meeting depends on the nature of the incident but it is usually chaired by the Prime Minister or another senior minister, with other key ministers as appropriate, and representatives of relevant external organizations such as the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Local Government Association.〔 COBR meetings are generally held in one of the Cabinet Office buildings in Whitehall, London. Each is held in a secure room fitted with video and audio links able to display all intelligence information relevant to the situation under discussion. Unlike the equivalent U.S. facility, the White House Situation Room, it is only staffed during each period of use. It is on the first floor of the building and not below ground or hardened against attack. The term COBRA (or Cobra) often used by news media is the acronym for ''Cabinet Office Briefing Room A'', as the meetings were usually held in ''Conference Room A''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Key facts about COBR(A) )〕 at the Cabinet Office main building at 70 Whitehall. This abbreviation is no longer used within the Cabinet Office. Official papers bear a logo based on that of the Cabinet Office with the addition of the words "Briefing Rooms".〔 There is no basis to the widespread story that it was originally referred to simply as "Briefing Room A" and that the words "Cabinet Office" were added to give the acronym a more virile character. In 2009, former senior police officer Andy Hayman, who sat on the committee after the 7 July 2005 London bombings and at other intervals from 2005 to 2007, was highly critical of its workings in his book ''The Terrorist Hunters''. A single photo of COBR was released in 2010 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=COBR - a Freedom of Information request to Cabinet Office )〕 The first Cobra meeting took place in the 1970s in order to oversee the government's response to the 1972 miners' strike. Other events that have led to meetings convening include the fuel protests, the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak and the September 11th attacks, the 7 July 2005 London Bombings, the murder of Lee Rigby,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=London 2012: What exactly is a Cobra meeting? )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cobra meeting hears 'strong indications' machete murder was a terrorist attack )〕 the 2015 Sousse attacks, the refugee crisis in Calais, and after the 2015 Paris attacks. == In popular media == * COBRA was featured in the fifth Alex Rider novel, ''Scorpia''. Alan Blunt, the director of MI6, takes Alex to a COBRA meeting to figure out what Invisible Sword (a proposed high-scale terrorist attack) is and how to stop it. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cabinet Office Briefing Room」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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