The Regional Secretary for Health stated in Angra do Heroísmo that the telecommunications network of the Azores Regional Civil Protection and Fire Service (SRPCBA) ensures resilience and capacity of communication to the Region, either in joint operations or in situation of disaster. It brings the Azores "to the 21st century in the area of communications technologies."
 
Luís Cabral spoke at the opening of the Civil Protection Assistance and Emergency Management Room and presentation of the new SRPCBA communications network, highlighting the benefits from the fact that this network is digital, which ensures better quality of voice transmission.
 
"The opening of this Assistance and Emergency Management Room, associated with the implementation of the new Civil Protection communications network, comes exactly with the aim of providing more adequate working conditions in the event of disaster or emergency," said the government official.
 
Luís Cabral stressed that the new space has been "modernised and adapted in terms of technological equipment." It will allow professionals to work in a "more coordinate and decisive manner," ensuring "better organisation in extreme situations."
 
"Even though we always wish the best, we have the duty to be prepared for the worst so that the powers assigned to this service, namely the guidance and coordination of Civil Protection and Fire services, may always ensure the highest quality service to the Azorean population," said the Regional Secretary.
 
The technological renovation project of the emergency telecommunications network of the Autonomous Region of the Azores aims to modernise and improve the indoor coverage as well as to optimise the reliability of the SRPCBA radio network.
 
It is intended to coordinate, in real time, the means and resources available as well as to ensure fire corporations, local authorities, health units and the Regional Government bodies an integrated and effective action, either in routine situations or in emergency situations and natural disasters.
 
This new network also arises with the purpose of fulfilling some operational requirements: how to effectively ensure voice communications and data exchange between users within the same island as well as between users on the nine Azorean islands.
 
Hence, the network is intended to follow a model of the transmission system, via radio and beams, in order to provide redundancy mechanisms that ensure a high degree of reliability and survival, both in terms of the communications to be made through the equipment installed or the communications to be made through the SRPCBA private network and/or public network.