Missouri Department of Public Safety Office of Homeland Security

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MissouriDepartment of Public Safety
Office of Homeland Security
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• The magnitude of recent disasters does not
  excuse our inadequate preparedness and response
• It must serve as a catalyst for far-reaching
  change
• Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina Report
  Feb., 2006

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• What is HOMELAND SECURITY?
• Terrorism was catalyst
• Homeland Security about more than just terrorism
• Funding drives many of the efforts
• Money alone cannot ensure it
• Technology alone will not fix all problems

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Missouris approach

• Unified and Seamless vision
• Continuity from Office of Governor DPS/Office
  of Homeland Security - State -/County/City/Private
  -Public Partners
• All Hazards

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• EXECUTIVE ORDER 05-20 06-09
• Homeland Security Advisory Council
• Director or Heads of the following Departments
  
• Public Safety ? Office of Homeland Security
• Health and Senior Services ? Transportation
• Agriculture ? Natural Resources
• Economic Development ? Chief Information Officer
  
• State Adjutant General ? MSHP
  
• State Fire Marshal ? Water Patrol
• Public Service Commission ? SEMA
  
• Mental Health
• 3 Public Members Appointed by Governor
• Fire
• Law Enforcement
• County Commissioner
• Ex-Officio Members

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Governors Homeland Security Advisory Council

• Meets Bi-Monthly
• Established the Regional Homeland Security
  Oversight Committees
• Sub-committees
• Interoperability of Communications
• Private-Public Partners (P-3)
• Education
• Safe Schools
• Higher Education Institutions
• Pandemic
• Geo-spatial
• Develop state Homeland Security strategy
• Yearly Report to the Governor/Legislature

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Regional Homeland Security Oversight Committees

• Institutionalized by Executive Order 06-09
• Meets Quarterly
• Emergency Management Police
• Fire
  Sheriff
• County Health
  EMS
• Public Works (City or County) Mayor
• County Commissioner HSRT
• Volunteer Groups 911
• Private Industry Schools
• Ex-Officio Members

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RHSOC Mission

• Facilitate engagement in Homeland Security
  planning process at the local and county levels
• Leverage resources regionally
• Empower regions to make grant funding other
  critical homeland security decisions
• Improve overall communication and coordination

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• Approx. FY05 Funding Per Region FY06 Funding
  Per Region
• (Note There was no funding formula
• in place prior to FY06)
• Region A 515,000.00 Region A 671,653.65
• Region B 225,000.00 Region B 959,771.30
• Region C 679,000.00 Region C 616,274.07
• Region D 774,000.00 Region D 1,696,274.46
• Region E 450,000.00 Region E 1,040,356.73
• Region F 1,400,000.00 Region F 1,198,424.93
• Region G 565,000.00 Region G 430,544.01
• Region H 236,000.00 Region H 892,767.21
• Region I 150,000.00 Region I 577,933.65

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WMD Regional Response System

• Moving from HSRT to a CBRNE/WMD Regional Response
  System
• Regional asset
• Special equipment and training
• WMD CBRNE focus
• Haz-Mat, EMS, SWAT,
  Bomb Squad, Decon

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FY 2006 Homeland Security Grant

• State Homeland Security Program (SHSP)
  17,980,000
• Urban Areas Security Initiatives (UASI)
  18,440,000 (Kansas City -
  9,240,000 St Louis - 9,200,000)
• Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program
  (LETPP) 5,610,000
• Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS)
  464,440
• Citizen Corps Program (CCP) 366,319

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• Diminishing funding resources mandate we have to
  spend smarter
• Prioritize statewide and regionally
• Threat Based (Terrorism All Hazards)

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Interoperability of Communications

• Sufficient and varied communications
  capability
• Enable public safety personnel to communicate
  within their agency
• Enable public safety personnel to communicate
  with other public safety agencies regardless of
  discipline or geographic responsibility
• Enable public safety personnel to communicate
  with the public on a day to day basis as well as
  during times of crisis.
• (Interoperability does not ensure Unified
  Command)

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http//miacx.org
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Pandemic Planning

• 7.1 billion national strategy to safeguard
  against the danger of pandemic influenza
• 1.8 Million initially for Missouri Preparedness
  Planning
• DHSS, Homeland Security, Ag, Conservation, etc.
• Planning at the grassroots level in communities

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Other Initiatives

• Private-Public Partnership (P-3)

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Missouri P-3 Partners

• ASIS
• BENS
• InfraGard
• Missouri Emergency Preparedness Association
• Private Security Professionals
• Chamber of Commerce
• Professional Organizations Associations

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Missouri P-3 Partners

• 1. Agriculture Food
• 2. Banking Finance
• 3. Chemical Haz-Mat
• 4. Education
• 5. Emergency Services
• 6. Energy
• 7. Government Ops
• 8. Information Security
• 9. Large Venue, Buildings, Monuments
• 10. Postal Shipping
• 11. Public Health
• 12. Telecommunications
• 13. Transportation
• 14. Water / Waste Water

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Missouris P-3

• Public/Government Benefit
• Resource Registry
• Situational Awareness
• Private Business Benefit
• Dissemination of Sector Specific Threat
  Information Situational Awareness
• Contingency Planning

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Other Initiatives
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School Safety Initiatives

• All Hazards web based school safety planning tool
• http//www.schoolsprepared.org
• School Lab Hazards W.G.
• Pandemic Planning for Schools
• ICS Active Shooter Training

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Safe Schools Partners

American Federation of Teachers Association for
the Education of Young Children Boone County
Fire Protection District Cole County
Sheriff Dept of Elementary Secondary
Education Dept of Health Senior Services Dept
of Mental Health Div of Fire Safety/State Fire
Marshalls Office Fire Marshalls Assoc of
MO Governors Office MO Association of
Elementary School Principals MO Association of
Rural Education MO Association of School
Administrators MO Association of School
Nurses MO Association of School
Psychologists MO Association of Secondary School
Principals MO Council of Administrators of
Special Education MO Federation of Teachers
School-Related MO National Education
Association Personnel PTA MO School Boards
Association MO Parent Teacher Association MO
School Nutrition Association MO School
Counselors Association MO School Resource Officer
Association MO School Public Relations
Association Parkway School District MO State
Teachers Association SEMA School Social Worker
Association of MO UMKC - Missouri Center for Safe
Schools Department of Elementary Secondary
Education
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Missouri Emergency Resource and Information System
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Vision

• Provide the State with a platform that can be
  used
• to meet the needs today, and in the future,
• for all jurisdictions to be able to participate
  in
• planning, managing, maintaining, executing
  response and recovery operations with common
  operating systems that provide near real-time
  situational awareness and synchronization of
  actions relating to emergencies and disasters.

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User Expectations

• It is expected that the MERIS platform will be a
  NIMS compliant, web-based tool, and offers
• Event management regardless of scope and scale,
• A common operating picture,
• Support for private and public resource and asset
  management functions,
• Integrated credentialing tools,
• Minimization of redundant data input,
• Geo-mapping options with an information link to a
  data warehouse,
• Templates for planning, operations resource,
  finance and intelligence functions,
• Reports for current situation to include
  real-time weather and weather forecasting tools
• Highly available with built-in redundancy
• This platform will provide a seamless tool for a
  unified approach for multiple jurisdictions
  conducting simultaneous operations during
  response and recovery to emergencies and
  disasters.

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Workshops Conducted

• Emergency Management Operations
• Asset Management
• Donations/Volunteers
• Credentialing
• LE/Intel
• Fire/Mutual Aide
• Private Sector
• Medical/Health
• GIS/Mapping/CIS
• CBRNE
• Policy
• Training
• Information Technology
• School Safety

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Rapid Response Features
Seven core elements of effective emergency and
crisis management that support RRP

• Meeting Place The Portal provides a place to
  assemble people/teams
• People A robust integrated directory structure
  for finding qualified human resources and
  managing system access
• Collaboration The ability to easily communicate
  with others no matter where they are located or
  what equipment they have
• Incident Management ETeam facilitates
  assessing, prioritizing, tracking, completing,
  and evaluating a myriad of incidents and action
  items, providing complete situational awareness
• Asset Management The ability to locate and
  bring assets to bear upon situations as
  effectively as possible
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Provides
  the ability to geospatially map, locate, and
  track incidents, people, and assets
• Application Integration Integrating existing
  systems and point solutions into the common
  response infrastructure

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Homeland Security Challenges

• Continuity
• Keeping things in perspective
• Keeping focused
• Being Inclusive
• Communication, Communication, Communication

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• Mark James
• Homeland Security Advisor
• Paul H. Fennewald
• Homeland Security Coordinator
• [phone]
• [phone] (fax)
• paul.fennewald_at_dps.mo.gov
• homelandsecurity_at_dps.mo.gov