South Central Task Force

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South Central Task Force Criminal Justice
SC School Safety Working Group Concept of
Operations
SCTF Criminal Justice Subcommittee Leadership Team
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Objectives

• To provide an overview of the SCTF organizational
  structure and concept of operations.
• To provide an overview of the SCTF School Safety
  Working Group (SSWG), its organizational
  structure, concept of operations, and related
  administrative and training issues.

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PA Regional Counter-Terrorism Task Forces
Northwestern PA ERG
ERIE
TIOGA
WARREN
SUSQUEHANNA
BRADFORD
POTTER
McKEAN
TIOGA
WAYNE
North Central CTTF
CRAWFORD
Northeast ERG
FOREST
WYOMING
ELK
CAMERON
SULLIVAN
VENANGO
LACKAWANNA
PIKE
LYCOMING
MERCER
Northwest Central PA ERG
CLINTON
CLARION
LUZERNE
MONTOUR
JEFFERSON
MONROE
CLEARFIELD
COLUMBIA
BUTLER
LAWRENCE
East Central CTTF
UNION
CENTRE
CARBON
NORTHAMPTON
ARMSTRONG
South Central Mountain TTF
SNYDER
SCHUYLKILL
INDIANA
LEHIGH
BEAVER
MIFFLIN
Southwestern PA Emergency Response Group
JUNIATA
ALLEGHENY
DAUPHIN
CAMBRIA
BLAIR
BERKS
BUCKS
PERRY
LEBANON
Southeast PA RTF
MONTGOMERY
South Central Task Force
HUNTINGDON
WESTMORELAND
WASHINGTON
CUMBERLAND
PHILA-DELPHIA
BEDFORD
LANCASTER
CHESTER
FULTON
DELAWARE
FAYETTE
GREENE
SOMERSET
FRANKLIN
ADAMS
YORK
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Regional Facts

• Population - 1.7 million
• Area - Approximately 5,200 square miles
• Municipalities - 312
• Emergency response organizations
• Police Departments 143
• Tactical Teams (SWAT) 6
• Fire / Rescue Departments 326
• Hospitals 16
• EMS / BLS 104 EMS / ALS 31
• Special Operations Units 25

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SCTF Leadership Team

• Executive Committee
• Susan Dutko - Chair, Franklin County OEP
• Voting Members - Eight County EMA Directors
• Gregory Noll - Program Manager
• Subcommittees
• Total of 8 subcommittees and various working
  groups aligned with emergency response
  disciplines

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Criminal JusticeSubcommittee

• Leadership Team
• Chief Bernie Dugan Fairview Twp. PD Chair
• Chief Dave Spotts Mechanicsburg PD Planning
  Specialist
• Tactical Team Working Group
• School Safety Working Group
• LEST Working Group

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Criminal JusticeSubcommittee

• CJSC Meeting Schedule
• Full Subcommittee generally meets quarterly on
  2nd Wednesday of the month
• HACC Public Safety Training Center _at_ Lunch at
  1230 hours Meeting at 1300 hours
• Subcommittee Membership
• County Chief of Police Association representative
• County Sheriffs Department
• Liaison Members (PSP, FBI, ATF, DOC, DHS)
• Meetings are open to ALL members of the criminal
  justice community
• Working Groups, including SSWG, meet as needed

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Criminal JusticeSubcommittee

• What Can the CJSC Do For You?
• Provides a process for providing LE mutual aid
  for large-scale events.
• Provide resources and equipment to LE agencies,
  as consistent with national priorities and
  regional strategies.
• Provides a vehicle for funding specialized LE
  training and exercises consistent with regional
  strategies.

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SCTF Mission Statement

• To foster and advance the capabilities of public
  safety providers, elected officials and other
  stakeholders in every political sub-division of
  the region to protect lives and social / economic
  infrastructure from terrorist or other large
  scale threats or incidents.
• SCTF will take a leadership role to facilitate
  the development of a comprehensive regional
  counter-terrorism program that will address
  planning, prevention, response and recovery
  issues.

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SCTF Strategic Objectives

• Develop and implement a region-based threat
  assessment and response strategy to acts of
  terrorism or other hazards.
• Develop a comprehensive, multi-jurisdiction and
  multi-agency response plan to acts of terrorism
  or other hazards.
• Implement an effective and efficient incident
  management system to support and sustain
  emergency response operations.
• Develop and administer a plan for the management
  of long-term recovery of the Region in the
  aftermath of a terrorism or other hazardous event.

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HSPD 8 National Preparedness GoalMarch, 2005

• To achieve and sustain capabilities that enable
  the Nation to collaborate in successfully
  preventing terrorist attacks on the Homeland, and
  rapidly and effectively responding to and
  recovering from any terrorist attack, major
  disaster, or other emergency that does occur to
  minimize the impact on lives, property and the
  economy.This state of national preparedness will
  be achieved by reaching risk-based target levels
  of capability, and sustained by measuring
  readiness and directing resources to areas of
  greatest risk and need.

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HSPD 8 National Priorities

• Expand regional collaboration
• Implement NIMS and the National Response Plan
• Implement the National Infrastructure Plan
• Strengthen CBRNE detection capabilities
• Strengthen interoperable communication
  capabilities
• Strengthen medical surge capabilities

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SCTF StrategicPlanning Assumptions

• Any regional response must build upon the
  elements of mutual aid that are used on a daily
  basis
• Where possible, all equipment purchased through
  SCTF will have a dual use capability
• Local response agencies will be on their own
  for the initial 24 hours before state resources
  and up to 96 hours before federal resources will
  arrive
• SCTF decisions are based upon regional needs
  and perspectives vs. local perspective

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CJSC - SSWG

• General Objectives and Scope
• The primary objective would be to develop a SCTF
  region-wide Standard Operating Guideline (SOG).
• We will work independently, but cooperatively
  with PEMAs Safe Schools initiative.

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CJSC - SSWG

• Adopt an All Hazards approach that would be
  implemented for all educational institutions and
  criminal justice agencies. 

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CJSC - SSWG

• While there would be
• some variations, the basic
• idea is to provide
• all educational institutions
• and police agencies
• with a fairly detailed framework.

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CJSC - SSWG

• SOG would include prevention, response,
  mitigation, suppression and recovery strategies
  by pre-planning to eliminate unmet needs or
  expectations and to help ensure relative
  uniformity of protocols throughout the region.
• The SSWG will focus on two primary areas
  Pre-School through Grade 12 and Higher Education.

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CJSC - SSWG

• KEY OPERATING PRINCIPLES
• Operational Security (OPSEC)
• PACE Planning Process
• P Primary
• A Alternate
• C Contingency
• E - Emergency

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CJSC - SSWG

• HEMP Metrics
• H Human
• E Economic
• M Mission
• P Psychological
• National Incident Management System (NIMS)
  compliance
• Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program
  (HSEEP) compliance

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CJSC - SSWG

• The process will include a review of existing
  protocols to identify the Best Practices
• The establishment of a SOG based on those best
  practices
• Ensuring that the SOG is NIMS compliant

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CJSC - SSWG

• Fostering agreement of the educational
  institutions and criminal justice agencies to
  adopt the SOG
• Seek consensus of other Emergency Service
  Providers
• Plan Tabletop drills

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CJSC - SSWG

• Conduct Functional Exercises
• Conduct at least one Full Scale Exercise
• Ensure that exercises and drills are HSEEP
  compliant.

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CJSC Administration Logistics

• SCTF will provide funding support for
• Direct costs and fees for required training
  courses
• Reimbursement for overtime or backfill costs for
  LE attending required training or participating
  in exercises
• PPE and equipment required for LE members to
  perform their duties.

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CJSC Administration Logistics

• SCTF CANNOT provide funding support for
• Reimbursement for normal wages and costs
  associated with LE members attending required
  training or participating in exercises
• Reimbursement for normal wages for Non-LE members
  attending required training or participating in
  exercises
• Police units, vehicles or equipment for LE
  members to respond to regional incidents

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What Can YOU Do?

• The greatness of any generation - or individual
  - is measured by the challenges we confront, and
  how we rise to meet those challenges.

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The South Central Task Force
Is YOU!!!!