2 Implications for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement:

Generally, any biological weapons attack that necessitates a federal response requires local authorities to provide site security while also ensuring that maintenance of essential police and emergency services by local agencies who are most familiar with the geography and public utilities.3 in that respect, biological weapons terrorist attacks require effective crisis management planning well in advance to establish emergency mobilization procedures and to ensure logistical command continuity, reliable interagency communications, and assignment of responsibilities among many different responding agencies in a manner that optimizes their combined resources and capabilities.4

Combined with the recovery of literature captured from Taliban and al Qaeda by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2002 pertaining to instructions for manufacturing and dispersing biological weapons, the revelations after the 2001 Anthrax attacks only raises the importance of reexamining the risk of biological terrorism...

Demands on Police Services in a WMD Incident; FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. Vol. 77 No. 3. Mar/08. pp 1-6.
Carter, D.L. The Law Enforcement Intelligence Function: State, Local, and Tribal Agencies; FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. Vol. 74 No. 6. Jun/05. pp 1-9.

Johnson, B.R. A Look at Fusion Centers: Working Together to Protect America;

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. Vol. 76 No. 12. Dec/07. pp 28-32

Larsen, R.J. (2007) Our Own Worst Enemy: Asking the Right Questions About Security to Protect You, Your Family, and America. New York: Grand Central Publishing

Schmalleger, F. (1997) Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the 21st Century. New Jersey: Prentice Hall

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Carlson, J.A. p.2

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