NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY‚ CALIFORNIA THESIS VALIDATING A METHOD FOR ENHANCED COMMUNICATIONS AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS AT THE INCIDENT COMMAND LEVEL by James H. Graham‚ Jr. March 2006 Thesis Advisor: Second Reader: Tom Housel Ted Lewis Distribution authorized to U.S. Government Agencies only; (Proprietary Information); (March 2006). Other requests for this document must be referred to President‚ Code 261‚ Naval Postgraduate School‚ Monterey‚ CA‚ 93943-5000 via the Defense Technical
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There are a lot of problems in today’s police departments. Starting with the closings of many police stations‚ which are being replaced with mini sub-stations. These sub stations are supposed to be helping the police with rough neighborhoods by placing them right in the center of them. It is not helping much at all. Crime is everywhere and there are not enough police to go around. Police departments are taking cuts in budgets and even laying officer’s
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attack was carried out resulting in 2‚753 Americans killed. America became locked in a war‚ and it needed more security on its own soil. So‚ congress passed a law known as the U.S.A Patriot Act. U.S A Patriot is a 10 letter acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. This allowed the N.S.A (national security agency) to gain information of individual citizens or groups of individuals by using library records‚ phone calls
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Pick three locations‚ events or individuals in your location (county‚ city or state) and complete a 6 - 8 page assessment of their vulnerabilities and threats‚ putting their security in order of priority‚ explaining and defending your choices. Terrorism vulnerability assessments were created to criticize any “Achilles’ heel” in a security system that can be exploited by anyone willing to do harm to the location‚ an individual‚ or coordinated event. It assesses the weaknesses of facilities
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THE POLICE & LAW ENFORCEMENT •Describe the role of police in contemporary society. Issues in today’s police departments. Hiring freeze for sworn Laid off officers. & civilian. Cut overtime spending. Cuts in services to the community. Not responding to vehicle theft‚ burglar alarms‚ and more because of budget cuts. Discontinued training‚ increasing fees for police services. Discontinued special units Timeline of the historical development of police agencies and jurisdiction.
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US-CERT Protection of Industrial Systems United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) primary effort to contend with cyber security issues‚ disseminate threat information to the public and private entitites‚ and ensure Constitutionaly rights are respected in those efforts. US-CERT is subordinate to the DHS’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) and monitors these threats on a 24-hour basis. US-CERT collections
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federal grant funds. The local emergency manager is primarily over the providing an emergency plan for the local jurisdiction. The local emergency manager allocated resource that is needed in the response of the operations. 2. State and Volunteer Group Response The state response has funding from FEMA and for the local emergency management
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Technocrats and Canada: Starting Point for Border Security Architecture Derek Brown (G00040841) Grantham University Abstract This paper will discuss the role of technocrats in Homeland Security and this paper will discuss whether or not Canada should of been the starting point for border security architecture. What is a technocrat? Is it some new genre of music for bureaucrats? Or is it what you get when you cross the techno genre and a Politian? Actually‚ it’s none of these; a technocrat
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Reaction Paper 1: 9-11 Errors Abstract September 11‚ 2001 was a very historic day. Not only did it affect the United States of America it affected everyone around the world. I want to discuss some of the things that helped the terrorist complete their attacks. In my opinion‚ no one specifically is to blame for the attacks‚ but there were certain elements that contributed to the event. 9-11 Errors It has been well known that the U.S. Government likes
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since the United States went through one of the most horrific‚ terrifying tragedies in all of United States history. As we all know today‚ on September 11‚ 2001‚ Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger airliners so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those planes were intentionally crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. For this reason‚ there has been an enormous amount of changes in the United States. The three
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