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¶ … Federal government has placed an admirable program in place for dealing with terrorist accidents. Firstly it has split itself up into distinct departments that will be there for dealing with the disaster depending on its specific nature. The FBI deals with a terrorist related incident and it is helped both by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and by the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Defense each with their different capabilities. The U.S. Department of Energy provides technical and scientific assistance whilst the Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention responds with technical and medical-related assistance and data.
There are two ways managing an emergency situation. The first is to develop plans and to deal with the crisis as it is unfolding. The second is to draft preventions and contingent plans beforehand and to apply these -- if necessary and if appropriate -- to the disaster once it has actually occurred. The challenge in both situations is communicating and coordinating their various resources in the most efficient, productive, least time and cost consuming manner possible solving problems rather than creating more.
The Incident Command System (ICS) is the...
They provide the unified command and response team at the start of the crisis to deal with the crisis.
The joint operations center (JOC), headed by a special agent, coordinate interagency operational and support needs of the deployment and manage joint agency public information and media interaction.
The ICS and JOC meld together and are in constant communication and collaboration with the FBI via training and briefs as well as through exercises and drills prior to emergencies in order to prepare them for the best way to deal with casualties / crises once they occur.
Carlson (1999) believes that with all factors of "planning, training, cooperation, liaison, resource definition, and coherent public policy implementation" (p.4) the different appropriate departments will be able to network effectively together and be able to not only effectively deal with crises once they occur but also potentially prevent them from occurring.
The plans for dealing with emergencies are admirable on paper and sound quite convincing, yet I think this all…
Carlson, J (1999) Critical Incident Management in the Ultimate Crisis. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin; Mar1999, Vol. 68 Issue 3
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (2006)
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