There is an exception in the case of the Canton of Zurich police Department . The leadership room on the top floor of the military barracks is otherwise occupied only in the case of major events in the Canton of Zurich or other exceptional events. Now sit here for days and around the clock, the Canton police and police officers from the governance support officers. For months Terror dominates the whole of Switzerland. Last Friday, terrorists of the Global Liberation Front (GLF) at the Central railway station and 47 people were killed and 78 injured.
of Course it is a fictional scenario, in the framework of the national security compound exercise, 2019 (CSR 19), is carried out since Monday morning for 52 hours in the whole of Switzerland. Therefore, it is no surprise that this Tuesday evening in the leadership room of the commander, two officers and a handful of police officers as a guide to support just sitting. Of a state of emergency, is little felt.
Hijacked plane
the message that the terrorists have brought to an airport in Eastern Europe on a plane in their violence and in the direction of Switzerland could fly. The police officers discuss the Situation briefly. Then Thomas Würgler is again for the journalists at the table. The hustle and bustle? Fail display. “In the case of an emergency that would be different,” says Thomas Würgler, the commander of the cantonal police of Zurich. With the exception that the “day-do not sit on the scoreboard,” then at the long meeting table and the Scene to observe would be.
the 20 seats at the long white table are Occupied only in the case of the five Reports, which will be carried out in such a risk situation every day. The officers will then be updated on the current status, it will be discussed, where action is needed and to what extent the existing strategy needs to adapt. For example, the fact that in the great Cathedral with a public memorial service for the 47 victims of the attack at the main train station should be employed. Still, terrorists are non-volatile and the critical infrastructure needs around-the-clock protection. It is a Central transport node points or, for example, electric power plants, which ensure the energy supply. How can guarantee the cantonal police, which is in permanent exchange with the city police, the safety of such a funeral?
in terms of Personnel to get to its limits, explains Würgler: “We need to set priorities and our forces according to use.” In the run-up to the national CSR 19 the person in charge of the Federal government warned, in Switzerland, about 5000 policemen were missing, with such a exceptional situation to deal. Commander Würgler confirmed the stock. Under normal circumstances, the police had charged right, especially as regards the investigation and the preventative risk defense in the fight against terrorism. In an extraordinary situation such as we have adopted here, this bottleneck effect, of course, considerably.
Canton police rehearsed also the Breivik case
For Würgler and the Zurich cantonal police, such Exercises are nothing out of the ordinary. Each year, she plays some with partners the possible scenarios. They can be of real foreign events inspire: The act of terrorism of the Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik on the island of Utøya, with 77 Victims in 2011, or the attack of an 18-year-old student in the Olympia shopping center (OEZ) in 2016 in Munich, with nine dead. As tragic as the events were, they are something else as a national threat by an international terrorist force. Nevertheless, the CSR 19 have shown that it was situated in Zurich, says Würgler. The Dominik schwerzmann, head of the Zurich population protection in the case of duty. How Würgler, he is one of the Canton police in such exceptional cases, the most important guidance individuals. The civil protection is responsible for ensuring that the public life can be maintained. The transport must be ensured, so that Doctors can go into hospitals and police to work. Children must go to school and the population can be supplied with food. In addition, the energy supply must be ensured at all times.
How come the Doctors in the hospital?
While the safety composite exercise 19 about the traffic collapsed – always fictional, because an act of sabotage to put the railway line Zurich-Bern Lahm and major highway links due to large no longer fires passable goods. Particularly, the Zurich health system was challenged, because suddenly, more patients were delivered with symptoms of poisoning in. The Global Liberation Front had poisoned the food. The Directorate of Health as part of the civil protection has to decide in such a Situation, as the patients can be distributed to the various hospitals in Zurich, so that none is overloaded, especially since the hospitals are at capacity because of the 78 injured in the attack at the main train station already strong. “In such situations, the available resources must be well used,” explains Schwerzmann.
conclusion want to pull Würgler and schwerzmann yet. So far, you have the situation covered, says Würgler, but he did not know himself, which Surprises the Exercise still holds. For one more night before you, in the case of emergency rehearsals.
As a Zurich-based liaison officer enters the room, stands in a direct exchange with the Federal authorities. The plane with the terrorists is now in the Swiss air space, explains Schwerzmann as he adopted the “Tages-Anzeiger”.
Created: 13.11.2019, 18:47 PM
