Talk:Rescue Services Agency (Sweden)

SRSA has been replaced by another authority. The following text is taken from www.srsa.se

A new authority - the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency

The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) - logotypeThe Swedish government has decreed that on 1st January 2009 a new authority, called the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, will come into force to strengthen Sweden’s civil protection and emergency preparedness. The new authority will be responsible for unifying, coordinating, and supportive tasks prior to, during and after emergencies. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency is being formed from three existing national government authorities, all of which will be closed down on 31st December 2008, namely the Swedish Rescue Services Agency, the Swedish Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), and the National Board of Psychological Defence (SPF). This decision means that the greater part of current SRSA activities will be taken over by the new authority; and the SRSA itself will cease to exist as an authority on 31st December 2008. The new authority will be based at several locations around Sweden, for example, Stockholm, Karlstad, Revinge and Sandö. The Director-General’s Office will be located in the Stockholm area. The international humanitarian operations that the SRSA currently run will continue on the same scale. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency will be in place and working with an all-encompassing task with regard to civil contingencies, that is to say, the whole spectrum of contingencies from everyday road traffic accidents and fires, up to chemical emergencies, power cuts and other technical failures all the way up to even more serious emergencies, such as bomb threats and other antagonistic attacks, epidemics, natural disasters and war.