Test your PCS before a real crisis tests it for you.
An untested PCS or PICS is just a hypothesis. ELISK. designs and runs municipal and inter-municipal crisis exercises, from scenario to after-action review, to make sure the plan actually works on the day it's needed.
What we hand overTabletop, field and communication — the right format for the right goal.
Three formats, depending on what you want to put to the test — the decision, the resources, or the public message.
Tabletop exercise
A discussion-based simulation: the crisis unit is walked through an evolving scenario to test decision-making, coordination and role allocation, without deploying resources in the field.
Field exercise
A full-scale mobilization of teams and, if the scenario calls for it, the population: testing material resources, real response times and field logistics under near-real conditions.
Crisis communication exercise
Testing the alert chain, public information and media handling: the right message, at the right time, through the right channel.
What the Internal Security Code provides.
Beyond drafting them, municipalities must test their PCS and PICS regularly — at least once every 5 years, under Decree No. 2022-1532 of 8 December 2022.
Test the plan's realism, verify procedures, train teams and assess resources.
Minimum frequency: a 5-year cycle, whatever the municipality's level of exposure.
Municipal, pooled, led by the EPCI, or combined with a departmental exercise.
Every exercise — or every real crisis — must produce an after-action review.
An exercise built on the risks of your territory.
From designing the scenario to running the day itself, then to the lessons fed back into your PCS or PICS.
Four steps, from scenario to after-action review.
A schedule set with you, from the first scoping meeting through to the report handed over.
Scenario scoping
The scenario is built from the risks actually diagnosed for your territory.
Logistics preparation
Participants, date, resources: everything is set before the day itself.
Exercise day
The exercise is run by ELISK., whether tabletop, field or crisis communication.
After-action review
A formal RETEX report and concrete recommendations to update your PCS or PICS.
Maximum years between two exercises, under the Internal Security Code.
Injects drawn from what can actually happen where you are.
A formal after-action review after every exercise, to keep the plan evolving.
What you leave with.
Four deliverables to keep a record of the exercise and fix what it revealed.
Scenario pack
The full exercise outline: injects, timeline and the role held by each participant.
Assessment grid
The observation criteria set for the day and the gaps recorded by our facilitators.
After-action review report
The formal record of the exercise, in line with Articles D. 731-12 and D. 731-13 of the Internal Security Code.
Update roadmap
The changes to make to your PCS or PICS, ranked and each with a deadline.