The Directorate for Protection and Rescue has many disadvantages and they will be completely removed, Angelov said

The Directorate for Protection and Rescue has been in agony for a long time, besides the lack of pilots there are problems with the Air Tractor Service at the moment there are still not enough signed contracts with the rapid response teams, including with the fire extinguishing teams, said today’s press conference.

Angelov noted that the institution lacks equipment, training, physical fitness, that the inspection of fire protection is in extremely poor, that there is a lack of serious number of appropriately educated and trained inspectors, but that there are doubts about the correctness of the permits that the PSZ extracted.

-At the moment the SSO works only a few specialists for handling non -powered low -scaffolding, while those removed and collected are kept inappropriately. There are other weaknesses, but we will further inform them. It is positive that the SSO works and properly educated, experienced people, but some of them are in places they cannot do their best. Along with those who show the ambition we will try to overcome the detected weaknesses in order to put the SSO in full function faster. As a director, I will be able to discuss the institution in detail and carefully study human and technical potentials, further detect the numerous disadvantages and weaknesses that will be completely removed in the new institution that will unite the functions of the CMC and SSO in an institution and the formation of the Government Rescue – said Angelov.

Regarding the readiness of the institutions for the summer he said, he said it was seriously preparing to easily tackle the challenges that would follow.

« In our country there is no functional ER tractor, but I am optimistic that we will soon have the three Air Tractors along with pilots, » Angelov said.

Answering a journalist question why it has been waiting for the SSO and CMC to merge in one, Angelov noted that the crisis management system is extensive and that it covers several institutions and laws.

-In the Government, a working group is established that works on a serious and complete transformation of the entire crisis management system, which is much wider than these two institutions that cover many other institutions. There are essentials in about 19 laws that regulate the matter of crisis management and protection and rescue and civil protection, so it takes more time. My focus as the new director of the SSO is the complete formation of a new institution that will unite the functions of the existing two institutions, while I have to point out the whole system is far more glomass because the summer time when the fires are raging, we use the army and police helicopters,

At the same time he informed that he handed over the post of CMC to Muhammad Aji today and that he comes from the ranks of the Directorate for Protection and Rescue.

-Today I have handed over the post of CMC director to Muhammad Adji who comes from the position of the Directorate for Protection and Rescue. I believe it will be difficult for him to follow my working pace, but I also believe he is the floor to do his best to get into the specifics of management faster. Trajce Jovanoski is appointed Deputy Director of CMC who works almost from the formation of CMC.