Tactics, command, leadership

continually assess the situation and requires an insight into the circumstances concerning ongoing response operations, assistan ...

Fundamental to being able to administer and control turn­out operations is, in the first place, recognition of the system, its c ...

The command system The command system is the part of the turn­out service that admi- nisters allocation of authority, resources, ...

the assistance need. There is normally, within the framework of a single response operation, a need to group resources to make t ...

If we then relate the discussion on decision domains to system le- vels, we can identify three types of decision domains. We can ...

managed by the respective decision domains, task command. And the task command domains are part of the operational command domai ...

System command Within the decision domain system command, the definition of the organization’s role is continually updated in re ...

decisions concern how the total organisation shall work and po- licy with regard to general direction. The situation that the ro ...

System command shall also initiate and define the frame work for an emergency response operation, in terms of the aim of the ope ...

System command shall, as other decision domains, be based on a tactical approach, i.e. the optimal use of available resources in ...

rate units or formations of units, such as sectors. It is important that these are configured and possibly grouped in such a way ...

ally strives to coordinate the work of the organisational elements. This also includes ensuring that they do not work against ea ...

directives and instructions of a practical, executive character or that are otherwise necessary for coordination of the work at ...

mand. This framework includes the aim of the operation, time, resources and geography. Within the framework, operational command ...

Task command The decision domain, task command, manages an organisational element in the execution of an allocated task. To mana ...

It is usually necessary to coordinate the various measures. Part of the work of task command is consequently to coordinate the w ...

Primarily task command manages the organisational element of the execution of the tasks that are allocated by operational com- m ...

five firefighters, to suddenly take on a position as commander of five units, each of five firefighters. The perspective is very ...

Time scales A time scale, in this context, can be defined as the period bet- ween the point in time when a situation is perceive ...

and again here it is, among other things, the situation that deter- mines the length of the scale. Longer time scales set limits ...