I saw that mentioned in the article, but what exactly is COBRA?
Meetings have been held to discuss the response to numerous moments of national emergency, the most recent one prior to Tuesday taking place in response to the March 22 Westminster terrorist attack. It is a way of ensuring you have got security, intelligence, police, emergency services, whoever you need for the nature of the crisis itself, brought together in one place and communicating very rapidly with one another, Lord Turnbull, formerly a senior civil servant, told the BBC.