Chapter 10 - Emergency Management

Question 1

In the civil defence emergency management act police have the power to evacuate any premise or place or excluded persons or vehicles from any premises or place with such action is necessary for the preservation of human life true or false

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The components of emergency management are referred to as the four hours what are they

Answer 2

Risk reduction readiness response recovery

Question 3

The purpose of CIMS is to achieve coordinated incident management across responding agencies by what

Answer 3

Establishing common structures functions and terminology

Question 4

What makes the Sims framework able to be tailored to the circumstances specific to any type of incident

Answer 4

It is flexible Modula and scalable

Question 5

Do all statutes require a state of emergency to be declared before the use of their emergency powers

Answer 5

No not all statutes require a state of emergency to be cleared before the use of their emergency powers

Question 6

What are the 10 principles of the Sims structure

Answer 6

Common structures roles responsibilities 
common terminology 
modular and scalable 
responsive to community needs 
integrated response coordination 
consolidated action planning
 integrated information management and communications 
resource coordination 
designated response facilities 
manageable span of control

Question 7

What’s the optimum span of control

Answer 7

The optimum span of control is between two and seven

Question 8

Can the lead agency change between risk reduction readiness response and recovery

Answer 8

Yes the lead agency can also changes the incident progresses if the required authority or expertise changes

Question 9

What is unified control

Answer 9

Unified controllers with the control of an incident is shared between two or more agencies by an agreement through a combined decision-making body

Question 10

What are the seven Sims functions

Answer 10

Control intelligence planning operations logistics PM welfare

Question 11

What are some additional roles in the incident management team

Answer 11

Technical experts risk advisors in response manager

Question 12

What are the five levels of response in the Sims framework

Answer 12

Community incident local regional national

Question 13

A decision to scale a response structure needs to be based on the three esses what are they

Answer 13

Safety size and complexity span of control

Question 14

When is an EOC activated

Answer 14

When there are several incident level responses at different sites when offsite coordination and support are required or to coordinate multi agency or multi incident responses

Question 15

What are the four types of coordination centres

Answer 15

Incident control point emergency operations centres emergency coordination centres national coordination centres

Question 16

What is the role of governance

Answer 16

Governance has ultimate responsibility for the response but delegates authority and operational control to a controller

Question 17

What is one of the inquiry sub functions that New Zealand police has as part of the national civil defence emergency management plan

Answer 17

Police is the agency responsible to coordinate inquiries to assist family and next of kin make contact with each other trace missing persons and notify their next of kin

Question 18

Name five agencies that are required to plan for and support police to facilitate the inquiry process

Answer 18

Red Cross Ministry of health ministry of education Ministry of foreign affairs and trade CDEM group DH bees

Question 19

What are the four key areas to an effective action plan Iraq

Answer 19

Integration awareness coordination and risk

Question 20

Do action plans need to be documented

Answer 20

Yes action plans need to be documented so they can be communicated effectively in New Zealand police this is operation orders

Question 21

Winner action plans updated

Answer 21

Action plans are updated with some of the arrangements and the action plans have to be amended

Question 22

What are the eight key functions of New Zealand police as described in the policing it

Answer 22

Keeping the peace maintaining public safety law-enforcement crime prevention community support and reassurance national security participation in policing activities outside New Zealand emergency management

Question 23

Depending on the type of emergency additional functions may fall to police under section 37 of the national civil defence and emergency management plan what are they

Answer 23

Police will support coroners as required under the coroners act including developing maintaining and implementing the mess fidelities plan

Question 24

What is the objective of New Zealand police in the national civil defence in emergency management plan

Answer 24

The objective of New Zealand police is to minimise the consequences of an emergency on individuals in the community by carrying out the functions of New Zealand police under the policing act

Question 25

Where in emergency is beyond the scope and resources of police and combined emergency services a district Commander may request civil defence emergency management group to provide support and/or declare a state of an emergency who must be notified

Answer 25

The National manager response and Ops must be notified when the state of emergency is declared

Question 26

What are the two types of decorations for a state of emergency

Answer 26

State of national emergency local state of emergency