Legal and institutional conditions of crisis management bodies in local government structures

<ns3:p>Ensuring effective protection of the population in an emergency requires the efforts of public administration bodies and other social and economic entities performing tasks in the field of security and defence. A special role in civil protection activities is played by: civil defence, the Police, the Border Guard, the State Fire Service, units of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, other rescue units and various specialised agencies, inspections, and services. The subject of crisis management is more and more often discussed and publicized in the public debate and in various publications. It is necessary to continuously adapt and improve national security management, adequately to contemporary challenges and threats, among others, by integrating many dispersed, side-by-side solutions. The article discusses the current organizational and legal solutions in this area, which allowed to answer the question whether the activities aimed at improving the internal conditions of security are aimed at creating an integrated national security management system. The aim of the article is to analyse the functioning of the crisis management system in Poland, and in particular the principles of operation of crisis management teams in emergency situations, taking into account the legal and institutional conditions of crisis management bodies in local government structures. For the purposes of this study, the following research problem has been formulated: How should crisis management teams work in the planning, decision-making and functional process at individual levels of administration in the event of threats? The basis for the development of the article were relevant legal acts and literature on the subject.</ns3:p>