From Civil Protection to Disaster Management

For many years, in the administrative slogans, the address and civil protection services are clbadified as "refrigerators". These are usually found with employees who are not friends of the government or simply "curious".

All of their work, which is shared by the time they have, waiting for a natural disaster, is to: "Inform" (that is, send) other services for what the so-called "Xenocratis". Do not imagine specialization of the business plan according to the nature of the service, the city or the region. They simply add this stereotype "please for your own actions" and are, by law, covered to do so

. Therefore, for the Greek public administration (the "mechanism of 39, state "as it is commonly called)

Negative performance and binding results are recorded in the three components of the civil protection policy: (a) Prevention, (b) Suppression and (c) Rehabilitation Indeed, the fire has highlighted the vulnerability, the vulnerability of our cities and their environment

The main value judgments in relation to the results of the policy of fight against the fire are: [19659006] The institutional framework of civil protection suffers from multiplicity, formalism, lack of operational readiness and polyarchy. In the prevention of disasters, the exercise of nine (9) powers must be coordinated by 45 agencies and, in the handling of the incident, 11 responsibilities are coexisted by 17 agencies

The General Secretariat to the civil protection has been dismissed since its creation. its regional services are extremely weak. Parallel horizontal structures overlap the PFM with respect to their responsibilities and the key line ministries retain the responsibilities they should have delegated to it in order to badume its coordinating role.

The staff of the central and regional directorates and the civil protection services are, to a large extent, inappropriate. 40% of servants belong to different specialties from those required by law.

Such a problematic public policy system can not make good use of resources. It should be noted that over the last decade, more than 100 million euros have been allocated to the modernization of civil protection

The modernization of disaster management policy has become a priority absolute. In this respect, the proposals for the improvement of the existing system are as follows:

A) The General Secretariat for Civil Protection becomes an independent disaster management service managed by the Prime Minister and equipped in a transparent and transparent manner by scientists and competent staff. The Agency will be responsible for developing policy priorities (Strategic Planning), Disaster Response Plan, Monitoring Implementation and Evaluation

The Service will be networked with 13 regional units, one in each administrative region. They will observe the operational guidelines of the Office and the mandates of the Secretary General of the Region, in which responsibility for the management of the policy as a whole

B) The disaster prevention phase should be organized in a network with the largest possible flexibility and integration of individuals and organizations with specific knowledge and experience. The Bureau must ensure the opening of the network.

(C) The Office should develop and adopt rules for redressing the procedures for seeking damages. With them, they must develop rules to maximize the use of humanitarian badistance offered by citizens and organizations in the aftermath of the disaster

Needless to say, such a plan to turning the marginal GHP into a front-line public service presupposes the multiplication of public policy, which must begin with the fact that the government is not involved in choosing the heads of agencies involved in disaster management