Interagency Cooperation

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Interagency Cooperation
2006 Utah Leadership Conference

• Partnering Together
• Jeffrey M. GoldbergManager of Products and
  Special Services
• First Line Technology, LLC

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Once Upon A Time
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What Are The Issues?

• Communication
• Personal
• Interoperability
• Failure to plan
• Poor intelligence

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Cooperation

• cooperation  (noun) -
• The act or practice of cooperating.
• The association of persons or businesses for a
  common benefit.

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Partnering

• partnering (verb) -
• The act of uniting or associating with another or
  others in an activity or a sphere of common
  interest.

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Case Study

• You accept a position with an agency in an area
  that is new to you. After speaking with your
  staff, you realize that there are no mutual aid
  agreements in place and your predecessor has
  burned all of the bridgesnow what?

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Why Cooperation Is Necessary?

• Joint planning
• Safer response
• More coordinated response
• Faster more efficient recovery

• Required by HSPD 5 and NIMS

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Challenges to Cooperation

• Communication issues
• Who is in charge?
• Stovepipe planning processes
• Distrust

Sound
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We Shall Overcome

• Meet one on one
• Use neutral territory
• Form an informal partnership then solidify
• Discuss areas of mutual concern
• Look for your neighbors strengths
• Find common ground

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Making Friends

• Communicate frequently
• Build two way communications
• Enhance customer service
• Visit the trenches

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Influencing People

• Do not over sell
• Communicate the need for change
• Involve, not impose
• Communicate, involve, enable, and facilitate

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The Contractor is Not Evil

• Private Sector Resources
• Understand your needs
• Memoranda of Understanding/Pre-Event Contracts
• Involve them in the ENTIRE process

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I Have It All Right Here

• If it wasnt written down, it didnt or wont
  happen
• Document, document, document
• Never assume

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Interagency Cooperation

• Capitol Hill Emergency Management Working Group
• Interagency Working Group on Federal Workplace
  Emergencies

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Interagency Cooperation

• Joint Terrorism Task Force
• Local Emergency Planning Committee
• Regional Planning Councils
• State Associations

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Jeffs Rules of Cooperation

• Know the players BEFORE an incident
• Plan together train together exercise
  together
• Know your assets
• Know your neighbors assets
• Have pre-existing mutual aid agreements/memoranda
  of understanding (a requirement of NIMS)

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Know the players BEFORE an incident
Jeffs Rules of Cooperation
When In Doubt See Rule 1

• Plan together train together exercise together

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Case Study

• You accept a position with an agency in an area
  that is new to you. After speaking with your
  staff, you realize that there are no mutual aid
  agreements in place and your predecessor has
  burned all of the bridgesnow what?

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Questions??
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703-473-8835
Email jgoldberg_at_firstlinetech.com Toll Free
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