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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">cndcgs</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2538-8959</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2669-2023</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>LKA</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">8_CNDCGS_2022_62-70</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47459/cndcgs.2022.8</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>A Devastating Tornado in Moravia in 2021</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>MIKA</surname>
            <given-names>Otakar Jiří</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:mika@polac.cz">mika@polac.cz</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_cndcgs_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_cndcgs_aff_000">Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague, Faculty of Security Management, Czech Republic ; University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Czech Republic</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>OTŘÍSAL</surname>
            <given-names>Pavel</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_cndcgs_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_cndcgs_aff_001">Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>2022</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>62</fpage>
      <lpage>70</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>03</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access">
          <license-p>Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY)</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>This article deals primarily with the protection of the population in the Czech Republic, as it is a very important security area of the highest priority. The population protection system in the Czech Republic is briefly explained, which has been fully under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic since 2001, but a number of other central administrative authorities (ministries, special institutes and institutions, research institutes) are also involved in its implementation. In addition to legal standards and implementation decrees, the Czech Republic security strategy and the concept of population protection are also presented. A separate part is devoted to the last valid Population Protection Concept from 2021, and it is emphasized here that the concept places great importance on the population’s preparedness for dealing with extraordinary events and crisis situations. The Model Action Activity of the Integrated Rescue System in the Czech Republic is presented in the next section. Although many model action activities have already been published in the Czech Republic, unfortunately such a safety management plan has not yet been published for the extremely hazardous natural disaster „Tornado“. This subsection briefly explains how the Intergreted Rescue system intervenes in emergency and crisis situations. A separate part is devoted to the hazardous and strong tornado in Moravia in 2021, where a total of 6 people lost their lives and another 200 were injured, many were hospitalized. Material damage after the tornado’s rampage climbed to dizzying heights. The wave of solidarity with the affected population has reached unprecedented proportions not only in the Czech Republic. At the end of the contribution, the authors present their own proposal for the future, how to continue working in this area, from the preparation and convening of a national security conference in the Czech Republic to the preparation and publication of the Model Action Activity of the Integrated Rescue System in the Czech Republic in the disaster event of a tornado.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>natural disasters</kwd>
        <kwd>natural disaster prevention</kwd>
        <kwd>prevention</kwd>
        <kwd>preparedness</kwd>
        <kwd>protection</kwd>
        <kwd>population protection</kwd>
        <kwd>Integrated rescue system</kwd>
        <kwd>model action activities</kwd>
        <kwd>tornado</kwd>
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