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CW: The Finnish authorities are
cooperating in a multi-authority CBRN
project called DECOVY. Would you tell
me briefly about the project? What is
your role in this project?
Isto Heikkinen, DECOVY Project
Manager, Executive Fire Officer, South-
Savo Regional Rescue Department: The
DECOVY project started on 1 May 2012
and it's leaded by South Savo Rescue
Department. The aim of the project is
to improve national CBRNE processes
in Finland.
The project will create national
recommendations to CBRNE process
equipment, systems and services.
Another challenging aim is to find out
the education and training fields
which can be used on the internet.
That education programme is meant
to serve all authorities working in
CBRNE operations. The project is
funded (50%) by Tekes, the Finnish
Funding Agency for Technology and
Innovation, the most important
publicly funded expert organisation
for financing research, development
and innovation in Finland. The rest
of the funding comes from
partner organizations.
Toni Leikas, Executive Director,
CBRNE, Innovation and Technology
Center Miktech Ltd: Miktech Ltd is
an Innovation and Technology
centre, whose majority owner is the
City of Mikkeli. One of their major
programs is Environmental
safety, and CBRNE; it coordinates
the subprogramme of CBRN
Finland. Miktech is responsible for
DECOVY-project administration and
reporting. The most important
work is the definition of the future
innovative training and
education platform.
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CW: What is the role of each of the
participating organizations?
IH: Our partners are the Ministry of
Interior, six Regional Rescue
Departments, one hospital District and
the Technical Research Centre of the
Finnish defence forces. The Ministry of
the Interior Department for Rescue
Services directs and monitors rescue
services and will support the project with
their connections into other Finnish
authorities and the EU. South-Savo
Police are not a project partner but an
expert participant. The Regional Rescue
Departments' role is sharing their
knowledge and testing the newest
Finnish equipment in the field of CBRNE
and participating in the development of
the definitions for an innovative future
training platform. Their area of
responsibility covers over one-third of
Finland and around one-quarter of the
Finnish population, which forms a good
test bench. The Technical Research
Centre of the Defence Forces will provide
a multi-disciplinary expertise for
planning the recommendations for
acquisitions and the hospital district
participates in the project because they
are in charge of the first aid. Our
partner will be an example for many
hospitals in the future.
CW: What are the objectives of this
multi-authority CBRN project?
IH: The objectives are to improve the
cooperation between the authorities, set
up recommendations for acquisitions
both for the equipment and for systems
and services as well as defining an
innovative training environment, and a
model for commercializing the training
environment.
CW: How would you describe the
present state of cooperation of
authorities in CBRN situations in
Finland? How do you think this project
will improve the cooperation?
IH: The cooperation has been good but
there is still room for improvement. For
example, we need to study how the
personnel and the equipment of the
defence forces can be used faster when
it’s needed. How can we decrease the
time from a couple of hours to less than
one hour? The same goes for other
authorities such as the police, hospital
districts and other experts. The project
gives us knowledge of the equipment
and the mode of operation of the other
organizations in a CBRNE emergency.
CW: One of the objectives is to define
a joint training and exercise system.
Why do you consider it important and
how will it benefit the authorities?
How will you proceed in order to
define this system?
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IH: Common exercises for police, first
aid and rescue authorities are organized
very rarely, and there are regional
differences. A common training
platform is needed in order to improve
the cooperation, as it will provide
possibilities for cost-effective common
training in an interesting learning
environment. We are mapping out
training platforms that are already
being used and we will test some of
them during this project. The final
recommendations for training platforms
will be defined as group work. The
working group will consist of people
working in training and communication
in the partner organizations.
CW: Decontamination of contaminated
areas is one of the greatest security
risks in today's world. Thus the
compatibility of systems, facilities and
services is growing in importance.
Another aim of your project is to
provide acquisition recommendations
in order to assure compatibility...
IH: Finland has 22 regional rescue
districts. In defining the acquisition
recommendations we will estimate what
kind of equipment and systems should be
used in each rescue area. What should all
the rescue personnel have in their
pocket (pocket guide for hazardous
substances), in the fire trucks, police
vehicles, ambulances, chemical
prevention units, the regional fire
departments, etc. We also need to
consider the regional needs according to
the risks and the distances in a sparsely
populated country. Where shall we locate
the most massive decontamination
systems, where will it be enough to have
temporary decontamination areas? It is
also important to study the
compatibility of the equipment in
order to guarantee smooth cooperation
with other authorities. The
acquisition recommendations will be
created in cooperation between
authorities and experts from various
different organizations.
Heikki Seulanto, CBRN Research
Manager, PVTT: Finland is a wide
country, and we have quite a few
operative CBRN teams with the right
type of education and equipment, but all
the operative teams must be available in
CBRN accident cases regardless of
which organization they are coming
from (Rescue Service, defence forces,
private companies etc). Well-organized
management and working information
systems are of course basis for
successful cooperation.
CW: One of the projects aim is to
provide a ‘Best Practice Handbook,’ to
the participating authorities. What is
this book and how are you going to go
about validating this? Will it be ‘Best
Practice in Finland’ or elsewhere too?
IH: The Best Practice Handbook is an
internet database that has been
collected during the project from the
partners, training sessions and experts.
The information and the expertise exist
but they are scattered and to use them
one needs many different sources of
information to find what you are
looking for. Rather than best practice
handbooks, the database should be
called the ‘library of CBRNE expertise’.
The final result will be for national use
in Finland.
CW: What is the wider importance and
meaning of this project? How will it
improve the cooperation between the
authorities in Finland and could the
results be used elsewhere?
Seppo Lokka, Rescue Director, South-
Savo Regional Rescue Department: In
Finland, the cooperation between
authorities is truly good. This project
will further strengthen the
collaboration. I believe that a lot could
be learned from this multi-authority
cooperation outside our borders.
Liisa Kokkonen, Chief of the Emergency
Medicine and Casualty Centre, Päijät-
Häme Social and Health Care Group:
The project shows a new perspective,
the whole ‘CBRNE- decontamination
–chain’. So we will now prepare to do
effective and safe decontamination at
every level, from the field to hospital
and these results could of course be
used outside Finland.
Heikki Seulanto, PVTT: One of the main
goals is to get better knowledge of
Decon capabilities and preparedness of
different authorities. Under the
DECOVY project we have started work
for getting uniform methods and
equipment for CBRN decontamination.
We will get a better model of action on
how to get suitable troops from
different authorities to the CBRN
accident location as quickly as possible.
This is the first pilot of cooperation in
CBRN decontamination between
different authorities and we must take
into consideration all experiences and
knowledge from this project
CW: Next Fall you will organize a
common exercise. What is this exercise
about and what agencies will be
involved in it? Is there anything
unique, or new, in this exercise that
has not been seen before?
IH: The CBRNE-2013 exercise will be
held in Mikkeli, which is within an easy
access for the project partners. The
exercise will be held from 10-12
September 2013, and it will have a
variety of training points. The same tasks
will be carried out twice to give more
people the chance to practise and test
new Finnish products developed for
CBRNE situations. It is not a
management exercise, it is about
technical and tactical skills and testing
new products. In addition to the
partners, the special department of the
police and the protection group of the
defence forces will participate in the
exercise. Equipment from the
Emergency Services College will also be
brought to the exercise for presentation
and testing. We will also put into practice
the CBRNE First Response guidebook,
published in 2012 and the HazMat
countermeasure database (TOKEVA),
which was published very recently. The
exercise will include: dressing exercises
for the first aid and police personnel,
using positive air pressure devices for the
police, building a decontamination line
for the hospital, DIM exercises, dealing
with obstruction or leaks, recognition of
explosives, EOD PPE for police or
military personnel and document use.
The exercise is expected to provide them
with new expertise that can be delivered
further in their area of activities. Next
year there may be a LivEx CBRNE event
with management aspects.
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