Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

Study Notes

The ICS is structured on six major functional areas: Command, Operations, Planning, Logistics, Finance, and Administration.
Intelligence/Investigation is an optional seventh functional area, activated on a case-to-case basis.
The Philippine government institutionalized the ICS through the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Law, also known as Republic Act (RA) 10121, on May 27, 2010.
The ICS is a flagship program of the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) and is used by all DRRM Councils, emergency management, and response agencies.

The CMC is primarily concerned with the formulation of crisis management procedures, integration and orchestration of government, military/police, and public efforts towards the prevention and control of crisis incidents.
The CMC's actions and decisions are guided by the policies laid down by the corresponding POCs.

The PNP NHQ CIMC has five sub-committees: criminality, destabilization, public disturbance and planned events, terrorism and CBRNE, and public health hazards and natural disasters.
The Committee takes cognizance of all critical incidents, whether human-induced or natural disasters, and supervises/oversees operations of concerned offices/units to mitigate its effects on the general populace.

The CIMTG is organized to carry out the mandates of the PNP CIMC on human-induced (man-made) incidents.
CIMTGs are replicated at the PRO/NCRPO (Regional) level down to the PPO/CPO; CPS/MPS (City/Municipal) level, following the ICS structure.
The Incident Commander (IC) is designated by the Chairman, CMC, and CIMTG, and is complemented by the Officers of the Office/unit with functional staff functions.

The Regional Director/Provincial/City Director/COP has the authority to activate the CIMTG for human-induced incidents and the DIMTG for natural disasters.
The CIMTG/DIMTG is activated to support the CMC.