CIP
Update
November 11, 2005
This newsletter is for cities, counties and communities involved
in public-private partnerships for joint emergency preparedness, planning and
prevention.
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 / Redmond, WA / Racine, WI / Richmond Area, VA / Rockville, MD / Sandy City,
UT
We are currently working with 19
communities and will work with another
26 cities, counties or communities over the next couple of years. Of the 26 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?
Are
You Prepared? – See the Target Capabilities List
The Target Capabilities List (TCL) is an
integral part of the nation’s preparedness level. The National Response
Plan, Interim National Preparedness Goal, National Planning Scenarios and other
related documents led to the development of the TCL. The central objective of capabilities-based planning is the identification of
target levels of capabilities
that Federal, State, local, and tribal entities must achieve to perform
critical tasks for homeland security missions (U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, 2005). Capabilities are
combinations of resources that provide the means to achieve a measurable
outcome resulting from performance of one or more critical tasks, under
specified conditions and performance standards (U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, 2005).
How
familiar is your business, agency, non-profit, or community with the TCL?
Has your community developed the capacity and capability in these 36
areas? Your local emergency management department, along with most public
safety agencies should be familiar with this document.
1.
Animal Health Emergency Support
2.
CBRNE Detection
3.
Citizen Preparedness and Participation
4.
Critical Infrastructure Protection
5.
Critical Resource Logistics and Distribution
6.
Economic and Community Recovery
7.
Emergency Evacuation / In-place Sheltering
8.
9.
Emergency Public Information and Warning
10.
Environmental Health and Vector Control
11.
Explosive Device Detection / Response Operations
12.
Fatality Management
13.
Firefighting Operations/Support
14.
Food and Agriculture Safety and Security
15. WMD/Hazardous Incident
Response / Decon
16. Information Collection and
Threat Recognition
17. Intelligence Fusion and
Analysis
18. Interoperable
Communications
19. Isolation and Quarantine
20. Mass Care (Sheltering,
Feeding, and Related Services)
21. Mass Prophylaxis
22. Medical Supply Management
and Distribution
23. Medical Surge
24. On-Site Incident
Management
25. Planning
26. Pre-Hospital Triage and
Treatment
27. Public Health
Epidemiological Investigation-Laboratory Testing
28. Public Safety and Security
Response
29. Restoration of Lifelines
30. Risk Analysis
31. Terrorism Investigation
and Intervention
32. Search and Rescue
33. Volunteer Management and
Donations
34. Water Search and Rescue
35. Worker Health and Safety
36. WMD/Hazardous Materials
Response and Decontamination
CIP Best Practices/Lessons Learned
The Annapolis Critical Incident Partnership (ACIP) group out
of
ACIP has taken partnership building to the next level by
forging a relationship with the local Chamber of Commerce to support critical
incident preparedness and homeland security within the business community and
private sector. If you have any questions about this project, please contact
Chairperson Michael Dunaway, ACIP at wmdunaway@usa.net.
Point-of-Contacts for CIP Communities
Based
on a suggestion from one of the communities, we have created a database of the
people who are either chairpersons and/or point-of-contacts for the CIP
Communities. The database was sent to each of the contacts, so if need
be, they can contact each other to ask questions or share information.
Additionally, the database is available to you in the members-only “CIP
Information Exchange” website. After you enter the website, go to the “Communities & CIP: Point-of-Contacts” (POC) folder
and you will see the file to open the database.
We
have sent two items to the POC’s already. One
was a question posed to us asking how does a CIP community
maintain their “institutional memory” with all the changes within a
group due to people leaving the group and new people joining. The other
one was about the partnership between law enforcement and private security
groups. A researcher will be contacting the POC’s
about the level of the partnership in their community.
Simplicity for Task Management in CIP Communities
One of the biggest challenges that CIP groups face in the
communities is trying to meet the needs of all the stakeholders in their
groups, be it manufacturing, industrial, law enforcement, fire and so on.
When a group is composed of individuals from different professions from both
sectors, yet the stakeholders are collectively interested in community
emergency preparedness, the group can easily transition to meet individual
needs, and forget the common goal. It is important that the leadership
stay on track and that the members work collectively.
Recently, in the on-line “Public and Private Partnership for
Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security” course taught here at MSU, a
posting by Rad Jones (founder of the CIP Program)
simplified how public-private partnership groups should work (Jones,
2005). MSU recommends that CIP communities should:
1. Bring together a diverse
representation from public and private sectors to focus on emergency
preparedness
1. Agree on mutual issues that
need resolution
2. Obtain champions for the issues
3. Utilize content experts
4. Develop and issue useful protocols,
standards, and/or guidelines
Campus – Community Emergency
Response Team (C-CERT)
MSU
was recently awarded another Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP), U.S. Department
of Homeland Security grant! This is the fourth grant awarded to the
The
C-Cert is a train-the-trainer for colleges and universities across the nation
and will involve 14 regional programs. C-CERT will train students, public
safety, security, faculty and other staff using the CERT train-the-trainer
model.
CERT
is one of the Citizen Corps programs that provide training to citizens to be
better prepared to respond to emergency situations in communities. When
emergencies occur, CERT members can give critical support to first responders,
provide immediate assistance to victims, and organize spontaneous volunteers at
a disaster site. CERT members can also help with non-emergency projects that
help improve the safety of the community.
Rad Jones
Receives the “Wall of Fame” Award!
Rad Jones, founder of the CIP Program, in addition to several other
initiatives at MSU, was recently recognized by the
“Excellence
in leadership” best describes Rad Jones who began his
criminal justice career as a police officer with Michigan State University
prior to entering the U.S. Secret Service (USSS). Subsequently, he
retired from the USSS as a Special Agent in Charge and as the Director of Security
and Fire Protection for Ford Motor Company.
Currently,
Rad is the director of both the Security Management
and Criminal Justice Internet Masters programs, recognized as the first
internet M.S. degree program in the country. He developed the CIP Program,
which includes the Critical Incident Protocol - A
Public and Private Partnership publication. Our congratulations to Rad Jones!
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 and it will take you to the main menu.
Located in the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all
Communities" are just a few of the following postings:
“Target
Capabilities List”
“Law
Enforcement-Private Security Partnerships to Promote Homeland Security”
“Information
Sheet on the Use of Unified Command (Dept. of Labor)”
“Creating
Effective Business Continuity Plans”
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
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
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this list, please reply to this email.
Sources
Jones, R. (2005). Public
and Private Partnership for Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security.
Instructor Comments.
Brit
Weber
Work:
(517) 355-2227 Cell: (517)
206-1640
weberbr@msu.edu
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our website: http://www.cip.msu.edu