Inter Agency Cooperation

• Prior to Sept 11, 2001 • Training Issues • Who's in charge • How do you manage an event • Who coordinates multi agency efforts • Duplication of efforts • Resources • Span of Control

ICS Organization StructureCommand Staff

Section Branch Division Group Unit

Taskforce Strike Team

Single Resource

Incident Command System

• Is a standardized management tool for meeting the demands of small or large emergencies or non emergency situations

• Represents "best practices" and has become the standard for emergency management across the United States

• May be used fro planned events, natural disasters and incidents of terrorism

• I.C.S. is the key feature of NIMS

Incident Command Structure

Incident Commander• PIO (Public Information Officer) Liaison Officer• Safety Officer

Operations Planning Logistics Finance/AdministrationBranchesDivisionsStrike TeamsTask ForcesSingle Resources

What are the PIO’s responsibilities?

What is the responsibility of the person designated to be the Liaison Officer?

What is the Safety Officer’s responsibility?

Unified Command

• Involves applying ICS in incidents involving multiple jurisdictions or multiple agencies.

• Establishes a single command structure • Enables all responsible agencies to manage an incident

together by establishing a common set of incident objectives and strategies

• Maintains Unity of Command, each group reporting to a single

• supervisor • Scenario Training, builds team work before you need

it.

Area Command

• Oversees multiple incidents that are being managed by and ICS organization or a large incident that has multiple management teams assigned.

• Resources/ sets priorities Difference: • Unified Command- directing, objectives Area

Command- resource prioritizing/ what/ • where

Where does intelligence come into these Incident Command Systems?

Who is responsible for developing this intelligence?

Who is responsible for dissemination?

What is your idea or definition of Problem Oriented Policing?

Who benefits from this style of policing? If you look at the area where you live, or lived

while growing up, did you see a change in the way policing evolved? Did it lean towards problem oriented policing?

Is this similar to community policing?

What is CompStat?

Comparing Statistics, what information does this provide for law enforcement?If you look at the meetings that New York Police Dept. held in the process of CompStat, what do you think might have hindered this process?