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Abstract

This article deals with the provision of cooperation of the Army of the Czech Republic with other units of rescue teams in the implementation of rescue and liquidation work in the regions of the Czech Republic in non-military crisis situations. At the present time of the global pandemic of covid-19 and the associated mass deployment of forces and resources of the primary and secondary units of the rescue system, the required effective cooperation in practice has proved necessary. The paper deals with the analysis of emergency management in a state of emergency in order to contribute to the improvement of civil-military cooperation. Based on the results of the research survey, the authors proposed evaluation criteria for determining the level of emergency preparedness of the forces and resources of the Army of the Czech Republic.

۱٫ Introduction

The article focuses on the issue of civil-military cooperation, active reserves and the current capabilities of the Army of the Czech Republic in providing cooperation with other units of the rescue teams of the integrated rescue system (IRS) in the implementation of rescue and liquidation work in the Czech Republic.

In the Czech Republic (CR), the IRS is not an institution, office, or association; it is a system of work with tools and model procedures of cooperation (Act on The Integrated Rescue System, No. 239/2000 Coll). It is part of the system for ensuring the internal security of the state. It is a system of contractual arrangements, and a coordinated procedure of its units in the preparation for emergency events (EE) and in the implementation of rescue and liquidation work. The primary units of the IRS are the Fire Rescue Service, the Police of the Czech Republic and the Medical Rescue Service. Secondary units are allocated forces and resources of the armed forces (Army of the Czech Republic), other security forces (Municipal Police), non-governmental non-profit organizations (e.g. Czech Red Cross, People in Need, etc.), public health authorities and other services (e.g. hygiene or veterinary authority). The primary units of the IRS ensure continuous emergency service for receiving reports of the occurrence of an emergency event and urgent intervention. The secondary units provide contractual assistance on the basis of a pre-concluded agreement on planned assistance on request (Talhofer and Hošková-Mayerová, ۲۰۱۹; Navrátil et al., 2019). The forces and resources of secondary units are included in the IRS alarm plan of individual regions of the Czech Republic (the Czech Republic has 14 regions). This increases the capacity of forces and resources of the primary units of the IRS. The IRS system is activated always when it is necessary to perform rescue with at least two primary units at the same time.