CAPABILITY OF CIVIL PROTECTION

Abstract

The specialists of the Institute of Public Administration and Research in Civil Protection
 are tasked to actually find approaches to a completely new direction in the field of civil protection - assessing the capabilities of civil protection and preparing recommendations on how to implement these approaches. This requires significant work on the definition of new terms and concepts, the formulation of the main functional capabilities of civil protection and their features, the study of properties and requirements for capabilities, their systematization by functional purpose justification of the main functional groups.
 The purpose of the article is to acquaint the interested audience with new concepts and approaches for the field of civil protection. In order to define the concept of "civil protection capability", the authors have worked out a number of laws and regulations on civil defense and national security and defense, as well as foreign documents, including NATO, and materials on defense strategic planning based on capabilities of the armed forces.
 To assess current and future threats to public safety, the population and the territory from emergencies, to develop an effective model for combating crimes against public safety and other illegal encroachments, it is necessary to determine the state of the unified state civil defense system, functional and territorial subsystems and other civil defense forces. for possible emergencies, taking into account potential threats.
 The article defines the concept of " capability analysis of functional and territorial subsystems of a single state civil protection system, civil protection forces", "capability requirements", "basic components of capabilities", "functional groups (integrated categories) of capabilities", "catalog of civil protection capabilities" etc.
 
 Key words: "capability" concepts, security and defense capabilities, civil defense capabilities, basic capability components, functional groups (integrated categories) of capabilities, capability catalog, civil defense overview.