CDEM Group Managers SIG

The annual get together of the Special Interest Group for CDEM Group Managers was held this week. As well as getting an update on activities across the Groups and MCDEM, a number of other subjects were covered. These included the national Emergency Management Information System, our joint EMNet project on the GIS web portal with HB, training and exercising, response teams, the Director's Guide on 2nd generation Group Plans, fast moving consumer goods and fuel supplies.

Towards the end of the session, I requested that a formal request from the meeting be forwarded to MCDEM for the development of a programme for Emergency Management Officer professional development. For some time now we have lacked a training opportunity for EM professionals to get together to work through legislation, Director's Guides, national level documents and other material that will help EMOs come to terms with their new jobs or developments in the sector. The proposal was endorsed unanimously and Gary Bedford, as the Resouse Managers Group representative, offered to write to John Hamilton on our behalf.

FYI - the CDEM Group Managers SIG is one of several SIGs recognised by the Regional Councils' Chief Executives Forum. Each SIG has an executive representative from the Resources Managers Group to provide a link back to RMG.