rate units or formations of units, such as sectors. It is important
that these are configured and possibly grouped in such a way as to
facilitate the management of the response operation.
It is also the responsibility of operational command to en-
sure that the tasks allocated to the organisational elements
are completed. This may, for example, entail issuing directives
and instructions of a practical, executive character or that are oth-
erwise necessary for the coordination of work at the incident site.
It can be said that helping the organisational elements to carry
out the tasks through coordination of their work is a central part
of the work of operational command. Operational command can
therefore be considered as that part of command that continu-In Allmänsta municipality the fire chief is responsible for the decision domain
system command. This is normally handled through a fire chief being in
preparedness. The fire chief in preparedness decides upon the aim of the
operation. System command should, among other things, ensure that each
individual response operation meets its assistance need. If this is not the case,
the aim of the operation can be revised.
If a second simultaneous response operation is carried out, system
command is responsible for the balance between the two. This can be
handled, for example, through resource distribution or through phasing the
aims of the operations.
Example 22