Matamata-Piako District Council is part of the Thames Valley Combined Civil Defence group. This group is made up of MPDC, Hauraki District Council and Thames Coromandel District Council.

Council is responsible for the preparation of plans and programmes to:

• Reduce the identifiable hazards/risks
• Train staff to respond to any emergency event
• Coordinate any such response in cooperation in other emergency and welfare agencies, and
• Coordinate the immediate, medium and long term rehabilitation of the community, following a disaster.

Click here for more information about Civil Defence and the Thames Valley Combined Civil Defence Group.

Click here for more information about what to do in a Civil Emergency.