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Denmark

English / dansk

  • Capital: Copenhagen
  • Population: 5.4 million
  • Language: Danish
  •  14 counties divided into 275 municipalities (from 2007: 5 regions, 98 municipalities)
  • Ministry of Interior, assisted by the Emergency Management Agency, co-ordinates civil preparedness planning and the implementation of associated measures
  • Each ministry is responsible for civil protection planning in their area of activity
  • A National Regional Preparedness system operates through six regional centers, supported by preparedness commissions at the municipality level
  • Conscription allows the National Rescue Preparedness system to establish and train a peacetime reserve
  •  Legislation has established the requirement for a single rescue preparedness authority at both the regional and municipal level
  • Municipal rescue preparedness level provides initial response, supported by National Rescue Corps in complex situations
  • Police are responsible for planning and co-ordination.

Danish Red Cross

  • The Danish Red Cross works at national and international level
  • The Danish Red Cross does not have an auxiliary role to the government but the National Society co-operates and is at the government’s disposal in case the government requests voluntary support
  • At national level the Danish Red Cross focuses on first aid education of the public, training of trainers for first aid, and first aid teams
  • At national level, the Danish Red Cross Asylum Department operates reception centers for asylum seekers and a diverse variety of services linked to reception and has thus a preparedness system in receiving any given number of asylum seekers to Denmark at any given time
  •  The Danish Red Cross also provides tracing activities, psychological and psycho-social support to repatriated Danish citizens affected by catastrophes abroad e.g. after the tsunami in December 2004
  • At international level, the Danish Red Cross provides capacity building support including support to programme implementation within several different areas/sectors to a number of partner Red Cross national societies. The Danish Red Cross also supports the Federation and local national societies during emergencies - partly through provision of ERU’s – Emergency Response Units.

Useful Links

The National Response and Emergency Management Agency
www.brs.dk
Kriseinfo.dk
www.kriseinfo.dk
The Danish Red Cross
www.drk.dk
The Danish Red Cross Asylum department
http://www.drk.dk/asyl
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Human aspects in civil protection

Informed, Prepared, Together, Resilience

  • Understanding the principles
  • Putting the principles into practice
  • Community-based emergency excercise guide

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How can you prepare?

Top 10 tips

Informed.Prepared. Together. Top 10 Tips leaflets, stickers and calendar with practical information, advice and tips on how to prepare for and what to do in an emergency for download.

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Learning tools

Downloadable games and leaflets to educate and raise awareness of emergencies.

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Floods across parts of Europe

Information and pictures of the flooding available here.

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Great interest for the Informed Prepared Together project

The Informed Prepared Together project presented at seve...

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