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Strike Team

Specialized response team

 

Swedish Chemical Support Team

  

Chemical emergency responders from the Swedish Coast Guard constitute a part of the Swedish Chemical Support Team (SCST) which is organized by the Swedish Rescue Services Agency.

SCRT has been set up within the framework of CWC (Chemical Weapons Convention) and follows a Swedish declaration to UN and OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons).

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The Swedish Chemical Support Team will support OPCW with:

  • Civilian protection (respirators etc.)

  • Rescue and peoples protection

  • Detection capability and equipment

  • Decontamination capability and equipment

A series of explanatory pages will give
further details on SCRT and its tasks:		 1.2 Mb PDF-file