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10 EΦA ROUNDTABLE BRUSSELS - 3RD, 4TH JUNE 2010

NEW MODEL FOR FIRE INVESTIGATIONNEW MODEL FOR FIRE INVESTIGATIONBSPPBSPP – Prevention Office - FRANCE

BSPPPrevention office

Chief of Prevention office - O.GAUDARD

10 EΦA ROUNDTABLE, BRUSSELS - 4th June 2010

NEW MODEL FOR FIRE INVESTIGATION (France)

The RCCI (Search for causes and circumstances of fires) is not a mission for the Fire Brigade, it is a mission for the Police or the Gendarmerie, for the benefit of the Justice Department.

Given these disparities, the French Civil Security Direction (DSC) created in 2008 a national working group to : • standardize practices,• list the different trainings.

A decree is currently being drafted to set the objectives and the missions of the fire brigades.

« It is a complementary and optional mission for the fire brigades. It is not subordinated to the signature of a convention with the Justice Department. »

2 ways to conduct the RCCI: • internally, for the Fire Services at the Departments level (SDIS),• for the Justice Department.




THE OBJECTIVES :

• contribute to the development of a database and statistics to improve fire prevention measures in buildings,• contribute to the policy of return of experience of the fire services,• contribute by helping protecting the interests of the service, • collaborate, under judicial requisitioning, in the framework of a criminal investigation according to the terms of the national convention if such one is established.

“However, The RCCI does not include the search of the responsibilities of the blaze”.







THE MISSIONS :

• collect information,• investigate the stricken places to find the point of origin of the fire,• take pictures or film the fire scene or the objects which could be useful in finding the truth, • protect certain pieces of evidence which risk to be deteriorated or destroyed by the fire or the water which is used to extinguish the fire,• propose to the operating commander, if the operational constrains allow it, to suspend temporarilly the excavation and clearing, • communicate all the collected information to the Justice Department in case of a judicial investigation.




THE TRAINING:

“ The RCCI can only be conducted by fireman which have followed the complementary RCCI course of PRV2.”

minimum level: superior under-officer, work in the field of prevention; have a recognised RCCI training:

ENSOSP (National superior school for fire brigade officers), Committee for validation of titles and diplomas (DSC).




THE CONVENTION WITH THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT:

To reinforce the coordination between the Justice Department and the Fire Brigades, a national framework convention can be signed at the level of the departments, after agreement with the Justice Department, the Prefecture and Fire Services at the department level.

It foresees and frames lawfully the intervention of the fire brigades in the framework of judicial investigation.

The Fire Service at the department level has to be organised in such a way it can respond to judicial requisitions.-It communicates the list of its experts to the prosecutor of the Republic.-The investigator has to hand out his report within three weeks.


Chief of Investigation group - D.LIEBART


BSPPWhat about fire investigation ?

490 000

18 585

6 925

42 fire deaths

Total interventions

Fires interventions

Fires in buildings

Statistics are used to : Adapt operational means and tacticsPrescribe prevention measures for buildings

How can we make the amount of fires to decrease ?


In 2009 :



Since 2007, a new structure attached to the Prevention Office


Chief of Prevention Office

Département 75

Département 92

Département 93

Département 94

Mission : to prescribe safety measures for building projects

Documentation section

Forecasting section

Mission : Legal foresight

Hydraulic group

Investigation group

Fire engineering group



Prevention officer 24/24

Mission : To analyse causes and propagations of fires

Buildings protection Fire service Fire safety engineering Legal department

To improve fire safety laws

To contribute to enhance operational

tactics

To validate technical studies

To defend the fire service

Work benefits to :




A small and young structure (2 firefighters)

Investigates uppermost

Targets of investigations

Actually we don’t

FatalitiesMany ressources are deployedSpecial buildings

Origine and cause of the fireProgress of the fireEvidences (firefighters, occupants...)Building fire safety device

Perform and test samplesPass our findings to police serviceWork as fire expert for court

Central Laboratory of Prefecture of Police

Near 150 investigations per year (2% of fires in buildings)




DATABASEDATABASE

FULL REPORTSFULL REPORTSFULL REPORTSFULL REPORTS

2 aids for investigation data, according to the relevance of the fire

Statistical purpose

Explain particular incidents




90 FIELDSFIVE KEY SECTORS

Event,Building type,Fire protection devices,Firefighting,Investigation conclusions.

DATABASEDATABASE




DATABASEDATABASE

FULL REPORTSFULL REPORTSFULL REPORTSFULL REPORTS

2 aids for investigation data, according to the relevance of the fire

Statistical purpose

Explain particular incidents




Building structure details,Conduct of the investigation,Listing of collected evidences,Reconstituted fire chronology,Conclusions and lessons from the incident.

FULL REPORTSFULL REPORTS




Some statistics about domestic fires, in 2009

76% of fires deaths occur in the home

Location of the victims aware of the fire before they died

82% of fires are made-man (careless or intentional)

59% of the victims died in their sleep

of the victims aware of the fire died while they were not originally threatened by fire44%

Domestic fire causes


Need to :oInstall smoke detectors (obligation by 2015)oIncrease communitie awarness of risk behaviours :•to prevent fire breaks out•to teach the good behviour in case of fire



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