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transport of dangerous goods and risk management - Kirilo Savić

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TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS AND RISK MANAGEMENT 155The role <strong>and</strong> tasks <strong>of</strong> law enforcement agencies in emergency situations are <strong>of</strong> security <strong>and</strong> strategic importanceboth in terms <strong>of</strong> the protection <strong>of</strong> lives, personal, proprietary <strong>and</strong> any other safety <strong>of</strong> people <strong>and</strong> the protection <strong>of</strong>other social values. In extraordinary situations, the organization <strong>and</strong> tasks <strong>of</strong> law enforcement agencies result fromthe solutions that are provided for by the Constitution, laws <strong>and</strong> regulations which set out the competencies <strong>and</strong>scope <strong>of</strong> work <strong>of</strong> these bodies.The main tasks <strong>of</strong> the police units in case <strong>of</strong> emergency, in order to protect the civilian population, material <strong>and</strong>cultural assets consist <strong>of</strong> the following:achieving the security <strong>of</strong> citizens, in other words carrying out police activities in the maintenance <strong>and</strong>protection <strong>of</strong> public peace <strong>and</strong> order;protection <strong>of</strong> lives <strong>and</strong> property by combating crime;carrying out other tasks <strong>of</strong> public security by which various forms <strong>of</strong> danger <strong>and</strong> threats to civilians,material <strong>and</strong> cultural <strong>goods</strong> are observed <strong>and</strong> suppressed;participation in the implementation <strong>of</strong> protection <strong>and</strong> rescue tasks, providing assistance to citizens <strong>and</strong> stateorgans, <strong>and</strong> establishing cooperation, coordination <strong>and</strong> interaction with other subjects <strong>of</strong> security, defence <strong>and</strong> other. 1LEGAL REGULATIONS COVERING EMERGENCY SITUATION MANAGAMENT IN THEREPUBLIC OF SERBIABy adopting a set <strong>of</strong> laws governing the field <strong>of</strong> emergency situations, the problems <strong>of</strong> outdated legislation whichhas led to anomalies in the functioning <strong>and</strong> lack <strong>of</strong> coordination <strong>of</strong> services in response to emergency situation hasbeen overcome. Previous experience in this area has shown that the existing organizational framework <strong>of</strong> protection<strong>and</strong> rescue in the Republic <strong>of</strong> Serbia was governed by a large number <strong>of</strong> anachronistic rules which provided forcontradictory decisions <strong>and</strong> for the implementation <strong>of</strong> which in practice a large number <strong>of</strong> various governmentbodies has been in charge.The “heap <strong>of</strong> rules” in this area further resulted in dispersion <strong>of</strong> energy <strong>and</strong> power it included, <strong>and</strong> there was anetwork <strong>of</strong> dysfunctional organs, bodies <strong>and</strong> units set which was insufficiently operational within the system.Namely, in addition to jurisdiction <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong> the Internal Affairs, the Ministry <strong>of</strong> Defence was also incharge <strong>of</strong> the civil defence as defined in Chapter VII <strong>of</strong> the Law on Defence <strong>of</strong> the RS.Furthermore, the field <strong>of</strong> flood protection was in charge <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong> Agriculture, Forestry <strong>and</strong> WaterManagement, <strong>and</strong> within the Ministry the Directorate for water <strong>management</strong>, while the protection from thechemicals, waste <strong>and</strong> harmful substances in the production, trade, <strong>transport</strong>, storage <strong>and</strong> disposal was theresponsibility <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong> Environment <strong>and</strong> Regional Planning – the Administration for the Protection <strong>of</strong>Natural Resources <strong>and</strong> the Environment within this Ministry.1Talijan M., Keković, Z., „Internal Affairs <strong>and</strong> preventive evacuation“, Proceedings <strong>of</strong> the Faculty <strong>of</strong> defense <strong>and</strong> protection,Belgrade 1999, pp. 131.

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