Moldova Targets 15-Minute Emergency Response
Interior Minister Adrian Efros provided details to Ziarul de Gardă regarding plans to increase the number of police and General Inspectorate of Carabinieri employees directly deployed in the field.
This change, coupled with a clear distribution of tasks, aims to improve the response time of these services.
Efros explained that there is a concept for regionalizing these institutions, meaning they will be reorganised through the creation of regional directorates. This concept is currently being finalised and will subsequently be presented to the government as a draft decision.
"We are in the final phase of the concept's development. It will be finalised, approved, and submitted to the government as a formal decision, after which we will move forward with operationalizing this regionalization. Additionally, we are collaborating with Service 112 to reduce response times. We have already developed a concept for restructuring and rethinking this process. Our goal is to have more integrated dispatch centres. Last year, we successfully operationalized another integrated dispatch centre. This type of centre houses all relevant actors – police, rescuers, and medical professionals – in the same space, allowing us to reduce reaction time and transmit information more efficiently to those responding in the field. This translates to faster arrival at incidents and the ability to provide the necessary support requested by citizens," stated the minister.
The Interior Minister Adrian Efros, appointed in July 2023, declared early in his tenure that one of his key priorities is to reduce the intervention time for events and incidents to a target of 15 minutes.
Translation by Iurie Tataru
