Constitutional Determinants of Local Government Responsibility for Civil Protection as a Part o Security System in the Confederation of Switzerland

Anna Gołębiowska and Weronika Jakubczak

Abstract:

 Bearing in mind rising number and scale of various threats, the necessity to build and sustain effective civil protection forces and mechanism is increasing. Globalisation and growing human population increases the probability of various dangerous scenarios to happen. In particular, there were Authors[1] [2] addressing health security but as many other threats, pandemic as one caused by COVID19 was not seen as the top priority danger before it have became very real. The situation is very dynamic also with the respect to the implications of Climate Change - extreme weather conditions are becoming more and more common[3] (in Switzerland land slides and floods). The scale of the aforementioned phenomena is growing therefore it is crucial for every country to efficiently address the problem - using without a delay formations that can protect civilians[4]. In Switzerland Civil Protection system can help with addressing the aforementioned problems. Despite of the fact that the Civil Protection in Switzerland operates on all levels and includes many bodies also on the federal level - its local components are of the great value and will be the main focus of this work.

[1]              See: A WORLD AT RISK, Annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies ,Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf 09.2019, accessed 28.05.2021.

[2]              See: Meggan E. Craft , Hawthorne L. Beyer, Daniel T. Haydon, Estimating the Probability of a Major Outbreak from the Timing of Early Cases: An Indeterminate Problem, PLOS ONE, 06.03.2013, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0057878, accessed 10.04.2020.

[3]              See: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , Special Report, Climate Change and Land, An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/, Revised by the IPCC on January 2020, accessed 20.03.2020.

[4]                             See. W. Jakubczak Struktury resortu obrony narodowej na rzecz sytuacji kryzysowych in Współczesna Obrona Narodowa ed. by R. Jakubczak, Warsaw 2020, Fundacja Historia i Kultura, p. 326.

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