Special training of police officers assigned officially to the District Department of the Regional Police Directorate of the South Bohemian Region on how to deal with emergencies and the performance of standard activities within the Integrated Rescue System

The thesis summarizes the issue of the IRS, describes the system of training related to the emergency management within the IRS and a quantitative research carried out on two groups of respondents supports it. The research revealed that if police officers have lack of knowledge regarding cases when the life or the health of people could be threatened it can prolong the time when the first aid is provided and risks which influence the emergency event are not prevented in time and hereby loss of life, damage to health, property or environment can be caused. The aim of this thesis was to assess whether legal regulations of the Czech Republic and internal acts of management of the Police of the CR applying to the issue of emergency management, solve the training of police officers in the field of emergency management in sufficient way. The second aim was to find out and to assess the knowledge of police officers who are officially assigned to District Departments of the Regional Police Directorate of the South Bohemian Region in the field of emergency management and the third aim was to process the draft of methodology according which the special training of police officers how to solve emergency events (fulfilment of task of Standard Activities within the IRS) and crisis situations would be conducted. Two hypotheses were set while elaborating this thesis: 1. Legal regulations of the Czech Republic and internal acts of management of the Police of the Czech Republic valid on the territory of the South-Bohemian Region applying to the operation of the Police of the Czech Republic as one of the main unit of the IRS solve sufficiently managing emergency events and crisis situations. 2. Police officers officially assigned to District Departments of the Regional Police Directorate of the South Bohemian Region are aware sufficiently of the issue of emergency management, Standard Activities of Units within the IRS in the case of a joint intervention. The legal regulations of the Czech Republic, internal acts of management of the Ministry of Interior, the Police of the Czech Republic and documentary sources which deal with this issue were used to find out whether the legal regulations cover sufficiently the matters of operation of the Police of the Czech Republic as one of the main unit of the Integrated Rescue System. It was found out and that after these sources had been processed that the Czech legal regulations and internal acts of management to the level of guidelines of Police Presidium cover this issue sufficiently, however the guideline issued by the Director of the Regional Police Directorate of the South Bohemian Region solves the training in the periodicity of 3 years whereas it concerns only Managers of District Departments