Chapter 10: Emergency Management Flashcards
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 District Court Judge
The CDEM Act confers powers on the police during a SOE. What are they?
Hint = 7 things
- 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.
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?
yes - 3 Months, fine not exceeding $5000 or both
in the case of a body corporate fine not exceeding $50,000
What does CIMS stand for?
Coordinated Incident Management System
The purpose of CIMS is to achieve a coordinated and effective incident management across responding agencies, how is that achieved?
Hint
- Establishing
- Enabling
- 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
For the purpose of CIMS, what is an emergency defined as?
Hint = Health, Property, Environ.
A Situation that poses and immediate risk to life, health and property or the environment that required a coordinated response
The components of emergency management are referred to as the 4R’s. What are they?
- Risk reduction
- Readiness (to respond)
- Response
- Recovery
Under the 4R’s response is identified. What are some of the common response objectives?
Hint = 10
- 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
Relating to CIMS, Describe “Lead Agency”?
A Lead agency has the mandate to manage the response to an incident through:
- Legislation
- Under protocols
- By agreement
- Has expertise and experience
Relating to CIMS, Describe “Support Agency”?
A support Agency provides support to the Lead Agency in a response.
The Lead Agency tasks and coordinates the support agencies resources and actions
Relating to CIMS, Describe “Unified Control”?
Control of an incident is shared between two or more agencies.
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
Control Intelligence Planning Operations Logistics PIM Welfare
An Incident Management Team (IMT) may be considered to assist the Controller what is their function and who makes the team up?
- Assist Controller by:
- Providing advice
- Providing specialist knowledge
- Handling detailed work
Made up of
- Response Manager
- Technical Experts
- Risk Advisors
What should the Controllers Span of Control be?
2 - 7 persons/ direct reports
There are 5 levels of response in the CIMS frame work depending on scale of event. What are they?
Community Incident Local Regional National
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
- Safety - of staff, public and property
- Size and complexity
- Span of Control
There are 4 different types of control centres that are set up depending on the scale of the incident. What are they?
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
In a multi agency response who is responsible for overall direction of the response?
The Incident Controller supported by the IMT
What position should be considered to assist the Incident Controller and IMT when working with outside agencies?
Liaison Officers
An Emergency Ops Centre (EOC) will be established to coordinate multi-incident - muli-agencies responses. The EOC will be activated when?
- 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
Changeovers are a major factor in incident management effectiveness. THE IMT plan and manage changeovers to ensure what?
- 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
What is Governance in respect to EM?
Every response has executive oversight.
May be Chief Execs, Senior Agency Manager, political leaders
Who hold ultimate responsibility for any response>?
Governance - but delegates authority and op control to a controller
CIMS Functions:
What is CONTROL responsible for?
Controlling and coordinating the response element
CIMS Functions:
What is INTELLIGENCE responsible for?
the collection and analysis of response information
CIMS Functions:
What is PLANNING responsible for?
Overseeing the development of action plans
CIMS Functions:
What is OPERATIONS responsible for?
The day to day coordination of the response and implementation of the action plan
CIMS Functions:
What is LOGISTICS responsible for?
providing and tracking resources to support the response
CIMS Functions:
What is PIM responsible for?
informing the public about the incident and response and liaising with media and the community
CIMS Functions:
What is WELFARE responsible for?
managing the consequences of the incident on staff, families/whanau and communities. Also advises on welfare resources, org structure and facilities.
Section 41(1)(j) and (k) of the National Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan 2015 make police responsible for what?
Coordinate inquiries to assist family and whanau and NoK to make contact with each other and trace missing persons and notify their NoK.
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
- Integrates all agencies in a cohesive manner
- Increases situational awareness between agencies
- coordinates activities toward a common goal
- Reduce risk, duplication and conflicting actions
How long does an Action Plan cover?
The duration of the incident or period defined by a controller
Who are responsible for developing Police Emerg. Management Plans?
District Commanders
Who must D/C’s provide a copy of the PEMP to in case of the district not being able to cope?
Comms Centres
What are the Principle roles of police in an emergency?
Hint = 6 things
- 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
There are 2 types of Declarations of States of Emergency, What are they?
- State of National Emergency
- Local State of Emergency
In what situation would a D/C request a SoE be declared and who would that request be made to?
When the emergency is beyond the scope and resources of police and combined Emerg. services.
Request made to CDEM to support or declare SoE
