DISASTER MANAGEMENT
In 2015, the Jammu & Kashmir Armed Police Force invited SSSSO’s Disaster Management Task
Force Team to conduct a two-day Emergency Response and Disaster Management Training Workshop
at its headquarters in Zewan, Srinagar. Held on April 4 and 5, 2015, this unique partnership
saw SSSSO’s DM personnel train 51 members of the Armed Police in rescue and recovery operations
during natural catastrophes like landslides, earthquakes, floods, and storms.
Despite unseasonal rains and flooding in the
River Jhelum, the DM Team members from
Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab
travelled to Zewan and conducted the training
that included classroom sessions as well
as practical exercises focusing on fire,
high-rise, water-related and other emergency
rescue operations.
Police personnel participated wholeheartedly
in the training programme and were
fully engaged in all aspects of the training,
both in-class and in the field practice
sessions that included a river-rescue training
session over the River Jhelum that had
experienced floods.
