The Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS, german: Eidgenössisches Departement für Verteidigung, Bevölkerungsschutz und Sport, french: Département fédéral de la défense, de la protection de la population et des sports, it, Dipartimento federale della difesa, della protezione della popolazione e dello sport, rm, ) is one of the seven
departments
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
of the
Swiss
Swiss may refer to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
*Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
*Swiss, North Carolina
* Swiss, West Virginia
*Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
* Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
* Swiss Internation ...
federal
government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government i ...
. It is headed by a member of the
Swiss Federal Council, the Swiss
defence minister
A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in s ...
.
Organisation
The department is composed of the following departmental sectors:
* General Secretariat
*
Swiss Armed Forces
** Land Forces
**
Air Force
An air force – in the broadest sense – is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an ...
** Armed Forces Logistics Organisation
** Armed Forces Command Support Organisation
*
Federal Office for Civil Protection
** Coordination of the
civil protection services of the cantons and municipalities
**
National Emergency Operations Centre
The National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) ( German: ''Nationale Alarmzentrale'', French: ''Centrale nationale d'alarme'', Italian: ''Centrale nazionale d'allarme'') is a government organisation of the Swiss Confederation based in Zürich ...
**
Spiez Laboratory, responsible for
weapons of mass destruction
A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to numerous individuals or cause great damage to artificial structures (e.g., buildings), natu ...
research and protection
*
Federal Office of SportFederal Office of Sport
** Responsible for sport policy, the National Youth Sports Centre Tenero
Tenero-Contra is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Geography
Tenero-Contra has an area, , of . Of this area, or 27.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 45.5% is forested. Of the res ...
and the Youth and Sport organisation.
* Federal Office for Defence Procurement
* Federal Office of Topography (Swisstopo)
* Office of the Military Attorney General: The military prosecutor's office.
* Federal Intelligence Service (FIS): Switzerland's civil intelligence service.
Name of department
*1848: Military Department
* 1979: Federal Military Department
* Since 1998: Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport
List of heads of the department
See also
*Sport in Switzerland
In Switzerland, most of the people have a regular sport activity and one in four is an active member of a sports club. The most important all-embracing organisations for sports in Switzerland are the Federal Office of Sport, and the Swiss Olymp ...
Notes and references
External links
Official website
{{Portal bar, Politics, War, Sports, Switzerland
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
Defence, Civil Protection and Sport
Military of Switzerland
Defence ministries
Sport in Switzerland
1848 establishments in Switzerland