December
05, 2005
This
newsletter is for cities, counties and communities involved in
public-private partnerships for joint emergency preparedness, planning
and prevention.
Michigan
State University produces the newsletter through the Critical
Incident Protocol (CIP)-Community Facilitation Program under a grant
awarded by the Office for Domestic Preparedness, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security. This
newsletter provides ideas, suggestions, best practices and lessons
learned to establish critical incident protocols using public-private
partnerships.
Please go to www.cip.msu.edu for more
information about the program.
Participating
Communities
Allentown,
PA / Annapolis, MD / Bethlehem,
PA / Brooklyn,
OH / Carroll County, MD / Casa Grande, AZ / Clark
County, NV / Evansville,
IN / Hoover, AL / Marquette
County, MI / Milwaukee, WI / Monroe
County, MI / Northampton County, PA / Oakland County, MI / Perkiomen
Valley, PA / Redmond, WA
/ Racine, WI / Richmond Area, VA / Rockville, MD / Sandy City, UT
We are
currently working
with 20 communities and will work
with another 24 cities, counties or communities over the next couple of
years. Of the 24 available CIP
Programs, we are in contact
with 10 communities. Is there a
location in the nation that you think may be
interested in building a public-private partnership for joint emergency
preparedness?
Welcome
Perkiomen Valley, PA
On Nov. 29th
we kicked off the CIP Program for Perkiomen Valley, PA which is in
Montgomery County next to Philadelphia. Located in the rolling
hills and valleys of Pennsylvania is Perkiomen Valley, which is an
upscale, quaint and historical area.
We had 60
people representing Montgomery County, Methacton School District, Wyeth
Pharmaceuticals, Perkiomen Township, Lower Providence Township, state
representative R. Bunt, Ursinus College, PJM interconnection, PECO
Energy, Comcast, The Times-Herald, Harleysville National Bank,
Montgomery County Intermediate, Tosco Elite Real Estate, Le Jardin, TR
Insurance, College Arms Apartments, Borough of Royersford, Worcester
Township, Spring-Ford Area Schools, All In Stitches, GlaxoSmithKline,
Phoenixville Federal Bank & trust, Commerce Bank, Trappe Borough,
St. Gabriel’s Hall, Limerick Township, Merrill Lynch, Perkiomen Valley
Schools, D.H. Kropp & Associates and the Perkiomen Valley Chamber
of Commerce.
Our thanks
to Dan Kropp of D.H. Kropp & Associates, Joe Fineran of the
Montgomery County Department of Public Safety, along with Amy Purcell
and Arlene Magargal of the Perkiomen Valley Chamber of Commerce whose
leadership brought the program to this area. Also, our thanks to
Comcast and PECO Energy for sponsoring the program, including upcoming
workshops.
Best
Practices and Lessons Learned
The CIP
staff solicits examples between public and private sectors on best
practices and lessons learned (BP/LL) for joint emergency
preparedness.
We keep a
current list of PB/LL that we distribute when working with communities
and/or doing presentations. To access the list, please go to the CIP
Information Exchange at https://angel.msu.edu/home.asp
and enter your user name and password and log in. When it takes
you to the next page, please click on CIP-Community Facilitation and it
will take you to the main menu page. Click on “Best Practices,
Lessons Learned and Other CIP Tidbits” and on the next page open the
top folder, which is the “BP/LL through the CIP Program”. These
were last updated in September 2005 and feel free to share it with
others. If you want more information from any of the examples,
please contact us.
If you have
an example, please share it with us. The program grows because of
you and your commitment to the public-private partnership for joint
emergency preparedness. Thank you.
National
Incident Management System
When companies, large to
small experience a significant crisis they are suddenly working closely
with the emergency responder community. Prior to a crisis,
businesses do not usually work with the public safety leadership.
Traditionally, a crisis unfolds and the emergency responders come in to
take over management of the event, while maintaining a liaison with the
involved company. From the public sector there could be police,
fire, EMS, health, environment, emergency management and others.
The business quickly responds to the event, while maintaining a working
relationship with the emergency responders.
Communication is one of
the most important aspects or tools when working in a crisis!
Across the nation our
public safety officials are using a federally mandated systematic
method for communicating during a crisis. More importantly, the
private sector is being exposed and sometimes trained in using this
same method, which is the Incident Command System (ICS). The ICS
method is a standardized,
on-scene, all-hazard incident management concept. ICS allows its users
to adopt an integrated organizational structure to match the
complexities and demands of single or multiple incidents without being
hindered by jurisdictional boundaries.
ICS principles use common
terminology and clear text, and a modular organizational
structure. It emphasizes effective planning, including management
by objectives and reliance on an Incident Action Plan.
For more information on
ICS please refer to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s “National
Incident Management System” website at http://www.fema.gov/nims.
Microsoft
& Redmond Police Partnership
In 2002 MSU worked with
the city police, Microsoft and UPS as a "pilot" CIP community in
Redmond, Washington. The Redmond Police Department, along with
the other city departments had a relationship with these two large
corporations, but wanted to take it to another level. The CIP
Program brought in key leadership from the city and the businesses to
work on joint emergency preparedness. Eventually, this
partnership grew between Redmond Police and Microsoft. It led to
each organization sending their officers and/or security to each
other's shift briefings, having city officers and security personnel
working together in the same units while on-duty, having dispatchers from each
organization sharing practices and procedures, and having Microsoft's
Executive Protection Team work with the Redmond Police
Department. As we speak, this partnership continues to grow.
One of key
figures that championed this partnership is Commander Ed
Billington with the Redmond Police Department. The Puget Sound
Chapter #051 of the American Society for Industrial Society (ASIS)
recognized Commander Billington with their "Leadership" award.
This was because of his leadership in developing a strong
public/private partnership with Microsoft, and providing useful
security strategies with local businesses through the Redmond Security
Forum. Our congratulations to Ed!
CIP
Initiatives
The CIP Staff is involved
in a number of initiatives in the area of public-private partnerships,
such as:
Dec. 2005 /
CERT train-the-trainer seminar in cooperation with MSU’s
Campus-Community Emergency Response Training (C-CERT) Program
Jan. 2006 /
Seminar for the Utah State Emergency Management Conference
Feb. 2006 /
Three seminars on “Enhancing your Business’s Emergency
Preparedness by Developing Alliances” for the Illinois Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity and partnering through Illinois
community colleges
Feb. 2006 /
Seminar for the Illinois Community College Conference
Mar. 2006 /
Critical Infrastructure Protection Conference with the State of
Michigan
May 2006 /
Seminar for Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa on “Enhancing Critical
Incident Preparedness through Public and Private Sectors”
These do not include the
ongoing partnerships with organizations that MSU has established
through the CIP Program.
Recent
Postings to CIP
Information Exchange Website
To enter the "CIP Information Exchange" website, please go to
https://angel.msu.edu
and enter your
user/password ID (or use msu.msu@angel in the User/NetID and
"partnership" as the password to log in). Click on CIP, which
goes to the main menu.
Located in
the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all Communities" are just
a few of the following postings:
“Americans Still Not
Ready for Disasters”
“District of Columbia
Business and Industry Emergency Management Plan (BIEMP)”
“Homeland Security Urges
Small and Medium Size Business to Take Steps to Prepare for Emergencies”
“The Public-Private
Interface: What’s Not in Place and What to do about it”
There are
numerous other resources located on the website. To locate a
specific topic, use the "search" function, which can be found on the
main menu page on the right-hand side in the green task bar.
Starting
a CIP Program
Feel free
to make a referral to the MSU staff about possibly starting a CIP
Program elsewhere in the United States. We can use your
assistance!
Past
Newsletters
If you are interested in
viewing past CIP Update
newsletters, please go to www.cip.msu.edu
and select “Newsletters” from the main menu.
Closing
If you have
any topics and/or ideas for a future
CIP Update
newsletter, please contact Brit Weber at weberbr@msu.edu or (517) 355-2227 or other MSU staff
members. About every three weeks you will receive this
newsletter via email. If you no longer want to be on this list,
please reply to this email.
Brit
Weber
School
of Criminal Justice
Michigan
State University
1407
S. Harrison Rd., 335 Nisbet Bldg.
East
Lansing, MI 48823
Work:
(517) 355-2227 Cell: (517) 206-1640
weberbr@msu.edu
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