The Italian Emergency Management System Department of Civil Protection Luca Rossi OECD Workshop on Inter-Agency Crisis Management Geneva June 28 th 2012
Civil Protection Mission L.225/92_art.1 Defence lives and property by damage or by possible damage due to natural & technological disasters and other destructive events. PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Pop : 8100 municipalities 20% of the population is distributed on 55% of the territory Italy: a disaster prone country Risks: Hydro-geological Seismic Volcanoes Forest fires Industrial and transport
25/05/11 The National Service The Service was established by law (n. 225) in 1992 and involves many different actor: public and private sector, scientific and academic sector, civil society. Mitigation Alert Response Recovering OPERATIONS AIMED AT FULFILLING THE BASIC NEEDS OF THE POPULATION AFFECTED BY THE EVENT BASED ON PREVIOUSLY ELABORATED EMERGENCY RELIEF PLANS INTERVENTIONS AIMED AT RESTORING NORMAL LIFE CONDITIONS REDUCING/MITIGATING DAMAGES RAISING POPULATION AWARENESS ENHANCE SELF PROTECTION MEASURES ANALYSIS OF CAUSES AIMED AT IDENTIFYING RISK TYPOLOGIES AND AREAS AFFECTED BY RISKS TASKS D.L. 59/2012
IDCP mandate To identify and involve all the public/private structures necessary to cope with the extraordinary events Ensure unified coordination/direction at national level Support all the operational structures involved collecting and sharing data and information DCP is the coordination body of the Italian National Service of Civil Protection
Interior Economy and Finance Foreign Affairs Environment Education, University and Research Transport and Infrastructures Defence Agricultural Policy and Forestry Communications Ecnomic Development Health Cultural Heritage and Activities PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS Department of Civil Protection Regions Provinces Municipalities National Fire-fighters Corp Police Prefectures I.N.G.V. C.N.R. National Institutes 118 Financial Police Army Navy Air Force Carabinieri G.R.T.N. Coast Guard ANAS Highways company National railways National Forest Service ANPA Local Police Structure
National Fire Brigades Army Air Force Navy Police Regions and Local Autonomies Italian Red Cross State Corps of Foresters Agency for environment protection National Institute for geophysics and volcanology Alpine Rescue Corps National health system National Research Council Volunteers organisations Head Department of Civil Protection The Operational Commitee is set up within the Department of Civil Protection to ensure a unified direction and coordination of emergency management Dams Agency Agency for road maintenance Highway Trains Postmaster Railway Electricity management agencies Monitoring forecast team Telecommunications companies Italian Television Agency for flight control
Real case 1: Costa Concordia Cruise ship Phase 1: Search & Rescue Phase 2: reducing/preventing environmental consequences
Real case 2: Emilia Romagna Earthquake Special Law (Decreto Legge 74) aiming to address the quick recovery of the industrial activity by providing technical guidelines to engineers and other technicians to put in safety the industrial buildings Search and Rescue Assistance to the multiethnic population Cultural heritage/Debris removal and disposal Damages to the industrial factories (Bio-Medical, Parmisan/Winegar) covering 1.5% NGP
One more reason for sharing Cost per year for: Co-financing of the technical- scientific national network: 7M Ordinary co-maintenance of the met network: 5M ECMWF (NWP) 10M Data and information/knowledge arising from such investment are made available, for free to all the civil protection components, including research centres, military and public services (e.g. the National Agency for Civilian Aviation)
25/05/11 21 Planned Regional CFSEs 9 Regional CFSEs fully operating 7 Regional CFSEs partly operating 5 Regional CFSEs not operating 1 National CFSE Sharing knowledge & responsibility: National Network of Centres for Forecasting and Surveillance of Effects (CFSEs)
Sharing knowledge & responsibility: The community scientific network supporting DCP