1. 1 Exercising Command and Control Interoperability in Systems and Culture Deputy Chief Officer Geoff Conway CFA - Victoria

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7. 7 There is not and could not be a single organisation solely and totally responsible for dealing with all aspects of emergencies. –EMMV

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9. 9 The current arrangements are complex; they involve a large number of agencies and organisations and can only succeed if there is a high level of cooperation and communication between the agencies and the community. –Esplin 2003

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11. 11 Getting public bureaucracies to adapt to crisis circumstances is a daunting – some say impossible – task in itself. –Boin, t’Hart, Stern and Saundelius 2005

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14. 14 Choices Victoria Police – boundary alignment and appointment of EM officers CFA – boundary alignment and appointment of officers MFB – boundary alignment and appointment of officers DSE – review of boundaries and appointment of project staff

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16. 16 It’s choice, not chance, that determines your destiny. –John Nidetch

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18. 18 Command Command involves the direction of personnel and resources of an agency in the performance of the organisation’s role and tasks. –EMMV

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21. 21 True integration, however, was not achieved in practice. The CFA and DSE operated according to separate standard operating procedures, using separate technology systems and in many cases doing the same things. –VBRC Final Report

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23. 23 Two key things to reflect on. –We need common systems and procedures and we must choose to work to them. –We need to accept that there will be some things that are legitimately different in the way individual agencies work.