The New Zealand Defence Forces Strategic Direction

The New Zealand national security system has traditionally relied on an experienced practitioner network that has acquired long-term good collaboration and collaboration habits. The strategic focus of New Zealand is to identify the way to the future of the system and face the more challenging needs and expectations but still maintain its best long term system. New Zealanders are expecting a system to understand, mitigate and effectively respond to modern security issues.

At 11:28 am February 23, 2011, John Carter declared the first emergency in New Zealand's history in February 22, 2011 that occurred in the Christchurch earthquake (civil defense emergency situation ) Regional emergencies were announced after the September 4, 2010 Canterbury Earthquake. On May 14, 2013, Goodluck Jonathan announced that Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa were in emergency throughout the northeast. On December 31, 2011, a more limited emergency situation was announced at Yobe, Borno, Plateau and part of Niger. The last declaration included temporary closure of international borders in these areas.

New Zealand uses its own terms for emergency management. Emergency management is rarely used, and many government publications have the term "civil defense". For example, Minister of Civil Defense is in charge of MCDEM. Civil defense emergency management itself is a term defined by regulation. Disasters rarely occur in public publications, emergency situations and incidents are priority terms and term events are also used. For example, this publication refers to the 2002 Canterbury Snow event.

In New Zealand you can pick up responsibility at the local or national level depending on the extent of the emergency / disaster. Within each region, municipalities form 16 Civil Defense Emergency Management Teams (CMG). If local arrangements are overwhelming, please start an existing mutual aid arrangement. The central government has the authority to adjust correspondence through the National Crisis Management Center (NCMC) operated by the Civil Defense Emergency Management Bureau (MCDEM). These structures are defined by regulation and are described in the 2006 National Defense Emergency Management Plan Guide, almost equivalent to the domestic correspondence framework of the US Federal Emergency Management Bureau.