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Chapter 10: Emergency Management Flashcards

1
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Under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act who can issue a warrant to police to obtain information required to limit or prevent the extent of the emergency?

A

a District Court Judge

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The CDEM Act confers powers on the police during a SOE. What are they?

Hint = 7 things

A
  • Evacuate Premises or place or exclude persons or
    vehicles
  • Enter and if necc. break into a place if believed the
    action to save life, prevent injury, rescue
  • Totally or partially restrict access to any road or public
    place
  • Remove any vehicle impeding CD ops including
    breaking into such a vehicle for that purpose
  • Requisition wide rage of resource is required to
    prevent loss of life
  • Direct anyone to stop any activity that may contribute
    to the emergency
  • Examine, mark, seize, sample, secure, disinfect or
    destroy any property animal or other thing to limit the
    extent of the emergency.
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If a request is made by a constable to another person under the powers conferred by the CDEM Act is it an offence and what is the penalty?

A

yes - 3 Months, fine not exceeding $5000 or both

in the case of a body corporate fine not exceeding $50,000

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What does CIMS stand for?

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Coordinated Incident Management System

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The purpose of CIMS is to achieve a coordinated and effective incident management across responding agencies, how is that achieved?

Hint

  • Establishing
  • Enabling
A
  • Establishing common structures, functions and
    terminology used by agencies in incident management in a framework that is flexible and scalable
  • Enabling agencies to develop their own processes,
    procedures and training for execution of CIMS
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6
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For the purpose of CIMS, what is an emergency defined as?

Hint = Health, Property, Environ.

A

A Situation that poses and immediate risk to life, health and property or the environment that required a coordinated response

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7
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The components of emergency management are referred to as the 4R’s. What are they?

A
  • Risk reduction
  • Readiness (to respond)
  • Response
  • Recovery
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Under the 4R’s response is identified. What are some of the common response objectives?

Hint = 10

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  • Preserve life
  • Prevent escalation of emergency
  • Maintain law and order
  • Care for the sick, injured and dependent
  • Provide essential services
  • Preserve governance
  • Protect assets including buildings and content
  • Protect natural and physical resources
  • Provide animal welfare
  • Preserve economic and social activity
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Relating to CIMS, Describe “Lead Agency”?

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A Lead agency has the mandate to manage the response to an incident through:

  • Legislation
  • Under protocols
  • By agreement
  • Has expertise and experience
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Relating to CIMS, Describe “Support Agency”?

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A support Agency provides support to the Lead Agency in a response.

The Lead Agency tasks and coordinates the support agencies resources and actions

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Relating to CIMS, Describe “Unified Control”?

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Control of an incident is shared between two or more agencies.

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12
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CIMS requires a large range of activities and tasks to be carried out. The resulting tasks have been divided into 7 major categories/functions, what are they?

Hint - C,I,P,O,L,P,W

A 
Control
Intelligence
Planning
Operations
Logistics
PIM
Welfare
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An Incident Management Team (IMT) may be considered to assist the Controller what is their function and who makes the team up?

A
  • Assist Controller by:
  • Providing advice
  • Providing specialist knowledge
  • Handling detailed work

Made up of

  • Response Manager
  • Technical Experts
  • Risk Advisors
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What should the Controllers Span of Control be?

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2 - 7 persons/ direct reports

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There are 5 levels of response in the CIMS frame work depending on scale of event. What are they?

A 
Community
Incident
Local
Regional
National
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16
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CIMS can be scaled up and down depending on the incident and requirements. A decision to scale a response should be based on what 3 things?

hint = 3 S’s

A
  • Safety - of staff, public and property
  • Size and complexity
  • Span of Control
17
Q

There are 4 different types of control centres that are set up depending on the scale of the incident. What are they?

A

ICP - Incident Level - Incident Control Points Lowest level - includes first responders

EOC - Local Level - Emergency Ops Centres - include local authorities, Fire district/city level agencies

ECC - Regional Level - Emerg. Coordination Centres - Includes CDEM groups, dist health boards, regional agencies

NCC - National Level - National Coordination Centres - National Level sector agencies, all of Govt coordination

18
Q

In a multi agency response who is responsible for overall direction of the response?

A

The Incident Controller supported by the IMT

19
Q

What position should be considered to assist the Incident Controller and IMT when working with outside agencies?

A

Liaison Officers

20
Q

An Emergency Ops Centre (EOC) will be established to coordinate multi-incident - muli-agencies responses. The EOC will be activated when?

A
  • When there are several incident level responses at
    different sites
  • When off site coordination and support is required
  • To coordinate multi-agency or multi-incident
    responses
21
Q

Changeovers are a major factor in incident management effectiveness. THE IMT plan and manage changeovers to ensure what?

A
  • Outgoing personnel leave once they have briefed
    their replacements
  • Changeovers:
    • Increase safety and reduce risk
    • Do not disturb response ops
    • Are staggered to ensure continuity
22
Q

What is Governance in respect to EM?

A

Every response has executive oversight.

May be Chief Execs, Senior Agency Manager, political leaders

23
Q

Who hold ultimate responsibility for any response>?

A

Governance - but delegates authority and op control to a controller

24
Q

CIMS Functions:

What is CONTROL responsible for?

A

Controlling and coordinating the response element

25
Q

CIMS Functions:

What is INTELLIGENCE responsible for?

A

the collection and analysis of response information

26
Q

CIMS Functions:

What is PLANNING responsible for?

A

Overseeing the development of action plans

27
Q

CIMS Functions:

What is OPERATIONS responsible for?

A

The day to day coordination of the response and implementation of the action plan

28
Q

CIMS Functions:

What is LOGISTICS responsible for?

A

providing and tracking resources to support the response

29
Q

CIMS Functions:

What is PIM responsible for?

A

informing the public about the incident and response and liaising with media and the community

30
Q

CIMS Functions:

What is WELFARE responsible for?

A

managing the consequences of the incident on staff, families/whanau and communities. Also advises on welfare resources, org structure and facilities.

31
Q

Section 41(1)(j) and (k) of the National Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan 2015 make police responsible for what?

A

Coordinate inquiries to assist family and whanau and NoK to make contact with each other and trace missing persons and notify their NoK.

32
Q

An Action Plan details the desired outcomes and key tasks for the management of an incident, An effective action plan must have what four things?

Hint =
Integrate
Increases
Coordinates
Reduce
A
  • Integrates all agencies in a cohesive manner
  • Increases situational awareness between agencies
  • coordinates activities toward a common goal
  • Reduce risk, duplication and conflicting actions
33
Q

How long does an Action Plan cover?

A

The duration of the incident or period defined by a controller

34
Q

Who are responsible for developing Police Emerg. Management Plans?

A

District Commanders

35
Q

Who must D/C’s provide a copy of the PEMP to in case of the district not being able to cope?

A

Comms Centres

36
Q

What are the Principle roles of police in an emergency?

Hint = 6 things

A
  • Maintain law and order
  • Protect life and property
  • Assist the movement of rescue, medical, fire and
    other essential services
  • assisting the coroner
  • coordinating movement control over land
  • Conducting inland search and rescue
37
Q

There are 2 types of Declarations of States of Emergency, What are they?

A
  • State of National Emergency

- Local State of Emergency

38
Q

In what situation would a D/C request a SoE be declared and who would that request be made to?

A

When the emergency is beyond the scope and resources of police and combined Emerg. services.

Request made to CDEM to support or declare SoE

Insp CPK 2020 (10 decks)

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