In the first half of 2012, 33,722 residents contacted Irkutsk's Unified Duty Dispatch Service. Operating 24 hours since January 1, it receives reports of emergencies and accidents, including in housing and utilities, and analyzes information and makes needed decisions. City officials say a key task is to introduce a single 112 emergency number system based on the service.
33,722 city residents contacted the Irkutsk Unified Duty Dispatch Service (EDDS) during the first half of 2012. This was reported by the head of the Service, Nikolai Polomoshnov, at a working meeting in the administration of Irkutsk. The Unified Duty Dispatch Service is the body of day-to-day management of the municipal link of the territorial subsystem of the unified state system for the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations, and it began operating on January 1 of this year.The main functions of the Irkutsk EDDS are to receive reports from the public and organizations about any emergencies, as well as emergency situations, including at housing and utilities facilities. In addition, the Irkutsk EDDS analyzes and assesses the reliability of information received from the public, collects information about the threat or occurrence of emergency situations, processes and analyzes data on emergency situations, assesses situations, and makes the necessary decisions.
The Irkutsk EDDS phone number is 520-112; it operates around the clock, and the Service employs 14 staff members.
As Acting Mayor of Irkutsk Dmitry Razumov reported, the main task set by the city authorities is to implement, on the basis of the EDDS, a system for ensuring calls to emergency response services through the single telephone number “112”.
(“System-112” is a unified information system for calling emergency response services - firefighters, police, ambulance, gas emergency service, rescuers.)
Based on materials from the press service of the administration of the city of Irkutsk