Zarządzanie kryzysami na szczeblu wojewódzkim : stan obecny i perspektywy

The political system reforms in Poland are related to providing responsibilities and competencies in crisis management for local structures (state and local councils bodies, entrepreneurs and non-state organisations). The general idea of the transformations is to decentralise the state life maintaining the priority for the highest value which the state and population security is. Hitherto existing law in the state has been related to splitting responsibilities from real competencies of a voivode - the government representative in a province. The idea of crisis management consisting in the continuity of power and responsibility requires charging the voivode with true powers to ensure common security on the area of the province. As a result of changes there appears an opportunity to introduce such a legal, organisational and functional state which will enable the voivode to conduct civil defence tasks fully, the basic aim of crisis reaction, especially in the situation of non- military threats, more and more often endangering the civilian population in peacetime.