> ## Documentation Index
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# Incident Roles

> API endpoints for incident roles

Manage incident roles.

During an incident, you can assign responders to one of the incident roles that are
configured in your organisation settings.

Every organisation will have a special 'lead' role, which signifies the incident lead or
commander. This role cannot be deleted, but can be renamed in the incident.io dashboard.

## The incident role object