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What does EMJPIC do?(Terms of Reference Part 5 of EMMV)

• Facilitates the provision of co-ordinated, accurate, timely, factual

authoritative and where appropriate, multi-lingual, information and warnings

to the public during major emergencies;

• Facilitates the development of multi-agency public information strategies

where required;

• Ensures media officers from other agencies understand each others role

and responsibilities in the multi-agency environment of emergency planning,

response and recovery;

• Develops procedures to ensure an information centre can be established

swiftly to handle media matters, issue media releases, co-ordinate conferences

and, where appropriate, assist in the establishment of information ‘hotlines’;

• Provides a forum to explore ways to educate the media and others about

the aims and operation of emergency planning, response plans and recovery

plans, the Victorian emergency management arrangements and the roles of the

emergency management agencies.

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