CIP Update

December 05, 2008

This newsletter is for public agencies, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders involved or interested in public-private partnerships for joint emergency preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery.

Michigan State University (MSU) produces the newsletter through the Critical Incident Protocol (CIP)-Community Facilitation Program under a grant awarded by the Training & Exercise Integration/Training Operations, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 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.

Michigan State University through the CIP Program will “enhance cities, counties, and region’s capabilities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from man-made and natural disasters through public and private sector collaboration, communication, and cooperation.”  MSU facilitates public-private partnerships and the CIP Program is free of charge to participating communities.

Please visit our website at www.cip.msu.edu for more information about the program.

Participating Communities in the CIP Program
The CIP Program has been initiated in 44 communities in 23 states with over 3,500 participants establishing community public-private partnerships for joint management of critical incidents. We are looking to work with other cities, counties and regions. Is there a location in the nation that you think may be interested in developing a public-private partnership? If so, please let us know.

Currently, we are working with the following communities:
Alabama:  Hoover
Arizona:  Casa Grande
California:  Mountain View
Colorado:  Littleton
Connecticut:  Norwalk

Florida:  Western Panhandle
Illinois:  Lake-Cook Regional, Libertyville, Naperville
Indiana:  Evansville
Kansas:  Douglas County
Maryland:  Annapolis, Carroll County, Rockville
Michigan:  Detroit, Marquette County, Monroe, Oakland County
Missouri/Illinois:  Gateway Citizen Corps Coalition, St. Louis
Montana:  Lewis & Clark County
Nevada:  Clark County
North Carolina:  Buncombe County, Greensboro
Ohio:  Brooklyn
Pennsylvania:  Allentown, Bethlehem, Northampton County, Perkiomen Valley

South Carolina:  Columbia, Horry County
Texas:  Dallas
Utah:  Layton, Sandy City
Virginia:  Arlington County, Richmond
Washington:  Redmond
Wisconsin:  Brown County, Dane County, Eau Claire County, Milwaukee, Outagamie County, Racine County, Superior, Winnebago County

CIP Program Activities

December 11, 2008: Outagamie County, WI (Facilitating Tabletop Exercise)

January 6-7, 2009:  Chicago, IL (Preparedness Summit)

January 13, 2009:  Romulus, MI (Initiating CIP Program)

January 21, 2009:  Superior, WI (Facilitating Tabletop Exercise)

February 26, 2009:  Eau Claire County, WI (Facilitating Tabletop Exercise)

Tabletop Exercise for Lake-Cook Regional Critical Incident Partnership

The last workshop that is offered through the CIP Program to participating communities is a tabletop exercise.  A crisis scenario for a large private sector employer is created, which incorporates public sector response. In following program guidelines, three groups participate: the crisis management team from the volunteer business, the first responder community, and observers.

Recently, the CIP staff conducted a tabletop exercise for a progressive regional collaborative that created their own entity; the Lake-Cook Regional Critical Incident Partnership (LCRCIP), a group of communities located north of Chicago.  The Takeda Pharmaceuticals crisis management team, along with Deerfield, Illinois and other area first responders did a fantastic job during the four hour scenario.  It was an excellent learning experience with over 100 attendees!

Our thanks to Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Deerfield, Illinois, area public sector communities, and the Lake-Cook Regional Critical Incident Partnership.  To learn more about LCRCIP, please go to http://www.lcrcip.org.  The CIP staff encourages joint tabletop exercising by bringing together the business community and public sector agencies to collaborate on how to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a critical incident. 

Today’s Police-Private Security Partnerships

Partnerships between law enforcement and private security professionals have a lengthy history in the United States.  In the past, response to crime in the business community was typically reactive and involved little proactive collaboration between the sectors.  Many citizens were under the impression that police and private security maintained a mutually beneficial relationship in the interest of public safety.  While law enforcement and private security personnel cooperated and engaged in joint efforts during times of crisis, often police executives and security managers diverged after resuming daily operations.

This relationship has greatly improved over the past 30 years.  The impact of major events, such as the attacks of September 11, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina, as well as the development of social and government programs, including Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), has led to increased collaboration.  In 2000, Operation Cooperation examined police and security issues and developed guidelines for sustaining partnerships between these entities.  This led to further discussion across the nation between law enforcement and security executives.  As the public-private partnership grew, COPS launched a new project in coordination with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the American Society for Industrial Security International (ASIS International), Operation Partnership, which is currently in its development stage.  To download Operation Cooperation, go to http://www.theiacp.org/documents/pdfs/Publications/opcoop.pdf.  

There are numerous benefits to establishing partnerships between law enforcement and private security.  For example, partnering can lead to increased crime control, since there are approximately three members of security for every police officer, which translates to “more eyes and ears”; enhanced technological capabilities through private sector resources; joint critical incident planning which emphasizes response and recovery; intelligence and information sharing; the identification and sharing of respective resources; and, community policing enhanced by relationships with security.

Some recent trends that have emerged include:

• An upsurge in the number of police-security partnerships
• Partnerships that are directed through joint public-private sector leadership
• More diverse activities performed by partnership groups
• Enhanced information sharing between police and security
• Sharing of resources through partnerships
• Institutionalization of partnerships

Lastly, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the American Society for Industrial Security International (ASIS International), two prominent law enforcement and security organizations, have been collaborating for several years.  For example, these organizations and other recognized entities released the National Policy Summit: Building Private Security/Public Policing Partnerships to Prevent and Respond to Terrorism and Public Disorder in 2004, which can be downloaded at http://www.theiacp.org/documents/pdfs/Publications/ACFAB5D.pdf.

Examine the law enforcement and private security network in your community to determine if “joint” preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery issues remain a priority.

Global Trends: 2025 by the US National Intelligence Council

Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World is the fourth edition released by the U.S. National Intelligence Council.  The goal is “to stimulate strategic thinking about the future by identifying key trends, the factors that drive them, where they seem to be headed, and how they might interact. It uses scenarios to illustrate some of the many ways in which the drivers examined in the study (e.g., globalization, demography, the rise of new powers, the decay of international institutions, climate change, and the geopolitics of energy) may interact to generate challenges and opportunities for future decision-makers. The study as a whole is more a description of the factors likely to shape events than a prediction of what will actually happen. By examining a small number of variables that we judge probably will have a disproportionate influence on future events and possibilities, the study seeks to help readers to recognize signposts indicating where events are headed and to identify opportunities for policy intervention to change or lock in the trajectories of specific developments (NIC, 2008, p.4).”

Further, “the report’s examination of the transition out of dependence on fossil fuels illustrates how different trajectories will entail different consequences for specific countries. An even more important message is that leadership matters, no trends are immutable, and that timely and well-informed intervention can decrease the likelihood and severity of negative developments and increase the likelihood of positive ones (NIC, 2008, p.4)”.

To read the report, you may download it from our CIP Information Exchange database (directions are listed below) or go directly to: http://www.dni.gov/nic/PDF_2025/2025_Global_Trends_Final_Report.pdf.

The Bridge to Somewhere – Public/Private Partnerships

Our thanks to Tom Conley who shared his article with us, The Bridge to Somewhere: Transitioning Public/Private Partnerships from Concept to Operational Effectiveness.

Conley states, “The movement toward, and the strategic concept of, public/private partnership is not new.  However, it has taken on a much more urgent thrust since the horrific events of September 11, 2001.  Creating and sustaining a robust and systemic public/private partnership is not an easy mission to accomplish.  It is a big job that carries with it the likelihood of significant consequences – both positive and negative.  The recognition that it is essential to create and sustain a robust and systemic public/private partnership is perhaps why so many people and agencies in the public and private sectors are working hard together to accomplish this “must win” mission.  While there are many strategic and tactical steps involved in developing and nurturing a true partnership the antithesis of the strength of partnership and the true test is when public and private sectors can respond together and be operationally effective during a crisis (Conley, 2008, p. 2)”.

In closing, “Both those in the public sector and in the private sector must understand the separate and distinct roles that each plays, while collaborating to the highest level possible on matters of common interest functions as a force multiplier against street crime, terrorism, and responding to and coping with disasters.  Developing and nurturing strong public/private partnerships can be a tricky business, which is why a strong and unyielding commitment to partnership for a common purpose must not waiver.   Both those in the public sector and the private sector will make mistakes along the way.  It is important for all people not to expect perfection from their partners, and to never look for reasons to disengage partnerships when mistakes occur.  Forgiveness and understanding are important elements to the process, and will be needed.  Partnership is also long process that will span generations, so patience and nurturing the process from everyone is an absolute necessity.  The benefits of strong public/private partnerships are significantly improved public safety and ultimately better protection for the citizens of the United States, and the values and way of life that Americans hold dear.  That objective is well worth the work of ensuring that strong and effective partnerships are built and maintained (Conley, 2008, p. 4)”.

To read the full article published by the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), Law Enforcement Liaison Council in their October 2008 newsletter, please go to: http://www.asisonline.org/councils/documents/LELCOct2008Newsletter.pdf.

Law Enforcement and Private Security: On the Job Together

The Virginia Center for Policing Innovation (VCPI), in collaboration with the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), U.S. Department of Justice, and Ohlhausen Research has produced and released a 27-minute video on the role and success of police and private security partnerships.  In this video, four examples from various regions across the nation illustrate the challenges and successes of partnerships to reduce crime and community problems.

In Baltimore, Maryland, community problems, relationships, and partnership actions between the Baltimore Police Department and John Hopkins University are examined.  In addition, cooperation between the Dover Police Department and NASCAR Security-Dover International Speedway in Maryland has resulted in enhanced safety during these events.  In Ohio, the Dayton Mall and the Miami Township Police collaborate to address problems and increase security efforts.  Finally, in Anaheim, California, a high profile resort area, the video discusses best practices/lessons learned and the partnership between the Anaheim Police Department and security at the Hilton Hotel.  Additional businesses, law enforcement agencies, and non-profit organizations are represented throughout the video as well.

In the video, Michael Minns, General Manager of Dayton Mall captures the ultimate goal of police-security partnerships: “We both want the same thing…how to get there was the question.” (VCPI, 2008).  To view the video, please contact the Virginia Center for Policing Innovation (VCPI) at www.vcpionline.org. 

Recent Postings to the CIP Information Exchange Website
The CIP Information Exchange website is a large database for public and private sector professionals interested in homeland security, emergency preparedness, business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency management.  It also contains research publications, government documents, news items, and more.

To enter the ‘CIP Information Exchange’ database, please go to https://angel.msu.edu and using the drop-down menu click on Angel Guest Account.  Click on ‘proceed’ and on the next webpage, enter “msu.msu” in the Angel Guest User box and “partnership” (both without quotation marks) as the password and then click on Log On. On the next page, click on Critical Incident Protocol (CIP) – Community Facilitation, which launches to the main menu.

Located in the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all Communities" are a variety of recent postings, including:

· Global Trends: 2025 – U.S. National Intelligence Council

· Guide to Critical Infrastructure/Key Resources Protection at State, Regional, Local, Tribal and Territory (Sept. 2008)

· NIAC – Critical Infrastructure Partnership Strategic Assessment (10-14-08)

· Business Continuity Event Planning: Business Impact Analysis (CSO & CIO)

There are numerous other resources located on the website. To locate a specific topic, utilize the "search" function. 

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 wish to be on this list, please reply to this email.

Disclaimer
The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or Michigan State University.

Sources

Virginia Center for Policing Innovation (VCPI).  (2008).  Law Enforcement and Private Security: On the Job Together Video.  Retrieved on November 20, 2008 from:  http://www.ohlhausen.com/vcpi-demo.htm.

Conley, Tom M.  (2008).  The Bridge to Somewhere: Transitioning Public/Private Partnerships from Concept to Operational Effectiveness.  ASIS Councils Newsletter: Law Enforcement Liaison Council.  October 2008.

National Intelligence Council (NIC).  (2008). Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World.  U.S. National Intelligence Council.  November 2008.

Brit Weber
Program Director
CIP-Community Facilitation Program
School of Criminal Justice
Michigan State University
1407 S. Harrison Rd., 335 Nisbet Bldg.
East Lansing, MI 48823
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