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Emergency Management
The ACT Policing Emergency Management and Planning Team works towards increasing the preparedness and response capabilities of ACT Policing to major events, Guest of Government visits and major incidents. Major incidents include, but are not limited to terrorism, natural disasters, health pandemics, recovery operations and crowded places.
Emergency management is not just about responding to an emergency. It also includes the development and maintenance of arrangements to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies.
The emergency management approach can be remembered with the acronym PPRR:
- Prevention
- Preparation
- Response
- Recovery
Prevention
To remove or reduce the level of the risk or severity of emergencies. It includes identifying hazards, assessing threats to life and property and taking measures to reduce potential loss to either.
Preparation
To strengthen the ability of communities to cope with the consequences of emergencies. It includes arrangements or plans to deal with an emergency or the effects of an emergency.
Response
To ensure the immediate consequences of emergencies to communities are reduced. It includes the process of combating an emergency and providing immediate relief for persons affected by an emergency.
Recovery
To support individuals and communities affected by emergencies in reconstructing infrastructure and restoring physical, emotional, environmental and economic wellbeing. It includes the process of returning an affected community to its proper level of functioning after an emergency.
The Emergency Alert system
The Emergency Alert is the national telephone warning system used by emergency services to send voice messages to landlines, and text messages to mobile phones, within a defined area about potential emergencies.
In the event of an emergency in the ACT you may receive a message from the number '0444 444 444' - this is how you know a message is a genuine Emergency Alert.
Police can use this alert system for emergencies including high-risk missing persons, terrorist incidents, active shooter incidents, or Amber Alerts.
The ACT Emergency Services Agency use the Emergency Alert system for incidents such as fires, floods, or significant storms.
Members of the community are asked to save this number in their phone as ‘Emergency Alert’ so they are not caught off-guard when an alert is issued.
Further information regarding the Emergency Alert system can be found here.
For information relating to ACT Ambulance, ACT Fire & Rescue, ACT Rural Fire Service and State Emergency Service news and alerts please visit the ACT Emergency Services Agency website.
This number is not monitored. Please do not report information about incidents to this number. Continue to report information to Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000, Police Assistance 131 444 or call Triple Zero (000) in an emergency.