The aim of this bachelor thesis is to determine and evaluate the level of knowledge and behaviour of the population living in the Vimperk municipality with extended powers. To achieve this goal, it was necessary to set a research question as follows: "Is the population's knowledge with regard to conducting evacuations at a good level?" In the theoretical part, the main aim is to describe the issues in the main topic. This was carried out by analysing documents, especially legal norms and professional texts. These documents described the evacuation problems in the public protection and fire protection areas. This section also listed several cases of large-scale evacuations, that have had to be carried out around the world. From both historical and modern events. In the practical part, the task was to find out the real knowledge of the inhabitants in the Vimperk municipality. For this purpose, a questionnaire was created, which we then distributed among the population. The questions mainly concerned knowledge in the field of population protection and they also partially concerned fire protection. Some questions were asked in such a way that they could be answered subjectively, so their result will not be included in the overall examined knowledge results. These questions assess the personal opinion of respondents. The questionnaire consisted of total of 17 questions, whereby 10 questions directly examined the population's knowledge and behaviour and 7 examined the subjective opinion of the population. Evaluation of 84 returned questionnaires showed that the knowledge of the population attains 88%. While the evaluation limit was set at 75%. This information indicates that the answer to the research question is positive. The knowledge of the population with concern to implementing evacuation in the Vimperk municipality is at a good level.
