REPUBLIC OF PERILO
Ministry of Extreme Situations
Address:
1 Disaster Plaza
Glencoe, National Capital Region 555
Perilo
1. Legislation:
The Ministry of Extreme Situations was established as the Committee of Air Raid Precautions on 1938-04-17 by Order In Council of the Colonial Government. With the initiation of World War II, this committee was reorganized as the Air Raid Precautions Service on 1939-12-10 and assigned to the Office of Colonial Defense by Order In Council. On 1950-03-12 the Legislature passed the Act Authorizing Civil Defense Precautions of 1950, and the Act was signed on 15 March by the President of the Republic, establishing the National Civil Defense Office. On 1992-11-11, the Legislature passed the Act Reorganizing Civil Defense, and the President signed it on the following day, renaming the National Civil Defense Office and elevating it to ministry status as the Ministry of Extreme Situations.
2. Mission:
The Ministry of Extreme Situations protects the citizens of the Republic from the effects of natural disasters, human systems failures, and conflict based disasters and coordinates the rapid response to and recovery from bad events. The Ministry provides oversight and management of searches for missing vessels, missing aircraft, and people lost in wilderness areas within the Republic.
3. Regulation and procedure:
Response to disasters is first a local responsibility. Local governments at the City, Town, or Village level declare disasters, activate their emergency operations centers, execute their emergency operations plans, and conduct operations by the emergency and public services to protect life, property, the environment, social order, and government. In those cases in which local resources are insufficient, provincial governments assume responsibility for management of the response and assist local governments to the limit of their resources. Should provincial resources prove insufficient, a request for a National Declaration of Disaster is made by the Provincial Governor to the Minister for Extreme Situations.
Initial detection of disasters that may require national response is reported by the Disaster detection network, a net of reporting stations that cover the Republic. On receipt of a disaster notification from the network, the Ministry establishes a watch on the event to expedite response by national agencies. Upon receipt of a request for a National Declaration of Disaster or in the event of special circumstances that require national agency resources, the Ministry coordinates governmental response.
4. Organization:
The Ministry is organized into three directorates.
Directorate of Preparedness - manages programs to prevent disasters, reduce the impact should a disaster occur, and to prepare government and the citizenry to continue to function through the disaster and to respond appropriately after its impact.
Directorate of Response - coordinates response of government and non-governmental organizations to the immediate impacts of a disaster, emergency recovery of lifelines, recovery, reconstruction, and redevelopment. The Directorate of Response operates the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) as a 24 hour a day facility for the coordination of initial actions and the operation of emergency government.
Directorate of Administration - manages the programmatic functions of the Ministry.
5. Staff:
Authorized staffing of the Ministry is 61 employees, including the staff of the National Emergency Operations Center. Ministry professional and technical personnel are assigned to the uniformed Commissioned Corps of the Ministry of Extreme Situations. Commissioned Corps officers hold ranks and status equal to those of the officer corps of the armed services of the Republic. The Minister of Extreme Situations holds the rank of Brigadier.
Each Province (Provinces of the North, Northwest, Southwest, and East and the National Capital Region) has an authorized Extreme Situations staff of 15 provincial employees. Cities, towns, and villages may have local extreme situations staffs. In Class I and II cities these average 2-4 employees, in Class III or IV Towns 1 or 2 employees who may be part time, and in Class V Villages 1 employee who may be either a part time employee or a volunteer.
Citizens of age 16 or older may volunteer to serve as Ministry of Extreme Situations Volunteers in place of militia duty.
6. Training:
The College for Extreme Situations, located in Glencoe, prepares students for professional careers in the management of extreme situations, offering degrees at the Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels in Disaster Studies. The College operates as a uniformed military training college for all of the emergency services. In addition the College conducts the Extreme Situations Apprenticeship program to train entry level fire and emergency medical services personnel who leave school before the Baccalaureate level.
7. Equipment:
The Ministry currently has (1) the facilities and equipment required to operate the National Emergency Operations Center, (2) communications equipment to communicate with provincial and local emergency operations center, and (3) communications equipment to support the Disaster Detection Network. Resources for on scene rescue and response operations in disasters are provided by the emergency services of local government, by other government agencies, and by voluntary organizations.
8. Finances:
The Ministry is funded through the normal budgetary process of the Republic. In the event of disaster, when the Ministry's disaster operations funds are exhausted, supplemental appropriations by the Legislature fund additional expenditures and reimburse provincial and local jurisdiction governments for up to 75 percent of their costs for response and recovery.