Integration of rescue systems – Rescue Security System of the City of Prague
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In 1995 the City of Prague established a Rescue Security System as a crisis management organisation for the needs of the City of Prague. Its tasks are to integrate the capacities of the rescue system components especially in order to co-ordinate emergency situations and disasters, to integrate the capacities for recovery after a disaster and to integrate the communication and warning systems of the city administration as well as the city population. The Rescue Security System was tested in the flood in 2002 and proved itself especially in communication and evacuation tasks enormously helpful. It is not only obliged with usual emergency situation handling but also with helping the population through property protection, environment protection and keeping up or quickly recovering infrastructure needs. It has access to several tools for monitoring, communicating and warning, such as the municipal camera system, the municipal radio system TETRA, a warning and announcement system and the communication among the operating call centres. The central co-ordination point for all communication and reaction in emergency situations and disasters is the city hall in the City of Prague, which is assigned tasks by the Czech Ministries of the Defence, the Interior, the Transportation and the Environment.
Newsletter 7 on Workshop 6: Risk management and training
