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Revision as of 08:57, 3 December 2005
CHAPTER 4 COUNTERMEASURES and POSSIBLE LOSSES(REPHRASE?)
4.1 DETERRENCE AND PREVENTION OF A PLANNED ATTACK
4.2 REPELLING THE ACTUAL ATTACK
4.3 RESPONDING TO THE RESULTS OF AN ACTUAL ATTACK
4.4 TECHNOLOGY AND POSSIBLE INNOVATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
COUNTERMEASURES AND POSSIBLE LOSSES
4.1 DETERRENCE AND PREVENTION OF A PLANNED ATTACK
4.1(a) Intelligence Gathering, Covert and Sting operations
4.1(b) Target hardening (gates, fences, access control, ID’s, Uniforms, spot checks, screening) “max number of steps philosophy”
4.1(c) Awareness, and response to suspicious activities, persons or vehicles on or near campus
4.1(d) Changes in policy and procedures according to current Terror Warning Level of the Homeland Security color coded alert system. Automatic, upon command?
4.2 RESPONSE TO AN ACTUAL ATTACK
4.2(a) Causality Avoidance
Evacuation plans (multi faceted?),
Lock Down (Multi Faceted?)
Survival Skills (emergency 1st Aid, Hostage situation psychology, leadership and crisis management skills)
4.2(b) RESISTANCE by “On Site Personal”
Security personal, Campus Police
Staff, Students and Others
4.2(c) COUNTER MEASURES AND EMS RESPONSE by Off Site Resources
CVPD, Outside Agencies SDPD, SDSO , State CHP, National Guard, Corrections
Federal (FBI, DEA, ATF, Marshalls, Customs, Boarder Patrol,
Federal Militiary (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard) Posse Commutates Issues?
Community Members, Private Business, Other groups or individuals
Fire Department, EMT, FEMA, RED CROSS, Crisis management personal, Media, Reunification Administration and Security.
Multi-Agency Communications, Incident command and Interagency Protocol
Specialized Units (Bomb Squads, Swat Teams, Air Support, K-9, Haz Mat Response Teams)
Vital Resources (Hospitals, Mobile Emergency Medical Stations, Emergency Transportation (Evacuations and move assets into area)
4.3 ESTIMATED LOSSES IN THE RESULT OF AN ATTACK (By attack form)
(possible attack forms, bomb, suicide bomber, car or truck bomb, armed assault, hostage take over, sniper, chemical weapon, biological weapon, arson-fire bombing)
4.3(a) People
4.3(b) Property
4.3(c) Monetary
4.3(d) Emotional and Psychological
4.4 TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS.
4.4(a) Closed Circuit/Wireless/Satellite Surveillance with protected links to all assoc agencies, Monitored?
4.4(b) Less Lethal Multiple Target Weapon Systems ( Energy or Sound weapons to Temporally incapacity), Others?
4.4 (c) Robots, Artificial Intelligence
4.4(d) Upgrading Weapon Systems and body armor/safety equipment to current FIRST RESPONDERS
4.4(e) Survival Packs Food/Water/Med Supplies/Communication in class rooms and strategic locations
4.4(f) Bomb and Chemical Detection Devices, Sample group of students to be medically monitored regularly for early signs of BIO Attack?
4.4(g) Future construction of defendable schools ( double edge sword) in the event of having to “retake” a campus…is there a way you can have your cake and eat it do by designing a campus that is hard to enter softly without attracting attention and easy to enter by force( hard to defend against forcible entry). Can existing campuses be modified as such?
4.4(f) Emergency Communications (Emergency Responders, School Staff, Parents, Etc)
4.4(g) Total Information Awareness Applications, Digital Scanning, Smart Data base, Face Recognition technology
POTIENTIAL SOURCES
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, The. Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities. U.S. Department of Education. May 2003. [3]
Orange County Public Schools. Orange County Public Schools Proactive Guide for the Threat of Terrorism Against Schools.
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities. School Preparedness for Terrorism. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Building Sciences. November 11, 2005. [4]
Kopel D. "Follow the Leader: Israel and Thailand set an example by arming teachers." National Review. September 2, 2004. [2]
http://www.schoolsecurity.org/terrorist_response.html
http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/emergencyplan/index.htmlhttp://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/index.jsp
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/index.jsp