Risk Management & Incident Com

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Contemporary law enforcement strategies must focus on all aspects of leadership and task management to effectively operate in complex environments. Today’s operating landscapes are challenged by the speed of information, which can outpace reactionary templates and diminish an organization’s impact on public safety. Mitigation of foreign and domestic terrorism can therefore present compounded challenges to public safety and organizational efforts to lessen threats and nefarious intentions of terrorists. The establishment of operational baselines and the identification of anomalies within these baselines has proven an effective tool for this mitigation and the recognition of danger prior to its onset. The continued ability of organizations to effectively concentrate on risk management strategies and apply essential communication and tactics before a critical incident, then becomes the focal point of enhancing public safety. This “left of bang” mentality postures organizations to alleviate casualties “right of bang”. The implementation of the incident command structure when planning for large scale events or critical incidents is a pivotal aspect of this posture when utilized with the proper protection methodology. This course will provide a framework for organizational preparedness prior to a critical incident from a large-scale security event to a terrorist attack. The implementation of the incident command system, coupled with essential risk management strategies, will be outlined as they relate to organizational cohesiveness and effective organizational execution. Through research of various critical incidents “right of bang”, students will correlate planning strategies prior to the event with incident outcomes and operable command dynamics post event. Essential preparedness models and theories will be researched and extensively examined, to provide clarity to…