The Building of a Security Exercise Program

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The Building of a Security Exercise Program
2006/TPT-WG-28/MEG-SEC/034 28th APEC
Transportation Working Group Meeting Vancouver,
Canada 5-8 September 2006
The Building of a Security Exercise
Program Purpose Consideration Submitted by
Canada

• APEC, Vancouver, September 2006

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The Building of a Security Exercise Program

• APEC, Vancouver, September 2006

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Changing a Culture

• The maritime industry and appropriate government
  bodies have had to play a major role in the
  implementation of a new philosophy in facing the
  security realities like never before.
• Tremendous efforts have been put forward to
  better understand a multitude of concepts
  starting with the identifying of risks and
  continuing with the actioning of security plans
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• Often, organizations lose momentum when its time
  to test and exercise these plans.

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The Building of a Sustainable Program

• As a governing body in Canada, Transport Canada
  has incorporated
• the requirements and guidelines of the ISPS
  Code into the Marine
• Transportation Security Regulations.
• The early challenges in Threat Risk Assessments
  and Security Plans
• are behind us.
• The continuing challenge is the maintaining and
  enhancing of those
• security practices in place.

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Where do we start?

• How do we ensure that security plans are accurate
  and realistic?
• - as the Government .. audit and inspect?
• - as the operator.test and exercise?
• Does it make sense for Government and Industry to
  work in isolation?
• Who has responsibility to ensure that the
  security works?
• How do we maximize our capabilities to increase
  our successes?

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Is this new to Industry and Government?

• Industry has had in place for several years
  emergency plans that are regularly tested
• Government has emergency and business resumption
  plans that are regularly tested
• Responders have response plans that are regularly
  trained to, exercised and tested
• INDIVIDUALLY THE TOOLS ARE IN PLACE

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Crawling
Walking
Jogging
Sprinting
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How do we build it?

• Common Training
• Formal
• - Incident Command System
• - Exercise Development
• - Risk and Threat Assessments
• Informal
• - awareness sessions
• - day in the life of.know what each other
  does
• - job shadowing
• - websites
• - tools

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• Partnerships
• - working together
• - establishing communication
• - sharing of practices
• - the pooling of knowledge
• - understanding each others strengths and
  limitations
• Participation
• - participate in exercises as a player/observer
• - contribute to planning, execution and de-brief

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Maximizing Resources and Requirements

• Facilities
• Ports/Facilities
• Ports/Facilities/Vessels
• Ports/Facilities/Vessels/Government/.
• Benefits
• - Sharing the cost of drill and exercise
• - Maximization of time
• - Collective
• - Increase the level of understanding of each
  others business and practices
• - Realistic

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Transport Canadas Role

• Transport Canada through various means assists
  industry in meeting
• those requirements
• - guidance material
• - participation
• - awareness
• leadership
• tools

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How do we provide guidance?Transport Canada
Marine Security Operations Website
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Marine Security Operations BulletinsMARSEC Level
Changes
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What is it we do?
TRANSPORT CANADAS FIRST RESPONDERS AWARENESS
TRAINING
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What tools can we provide?
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How do we test ourselves?

• Exercise Exercise Exercise
• Notice to Facilities
• MARSEC ALERT
• Notice 3
• 12 JUNE 2006
•  THIS IS A TEST OF THE TRANSPORT CANADA MARSEC
  PACIFIC
• ELECTRONIC MAIL ALERT SYSTEM
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• In the event of a MARSEC level increase, Port
  Security Officers and Marine Facility Security
  Officers will be notified by e-mail, then by
  telephone.
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• Port Security Officers and Marine Facility
  Security Officers should acknowledge all MARSEC
  Alert notifications upon receipt to
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• MARSECPACIFIC_at_TC.GC.CA
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How do we actively participate?
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How do we participate?
EXERCISE SEA BARRIER 2006 INITIAL PLANNING
CONFERENCE
TRANSPORT CANADA MARINE SECURITY
Presentation Pacific Region Presented
to DND, RCMP, CBSA and CCG
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How do we be responsive to Industry?

 

• 24-HOUR EMERGENCY NUMBER
• MARINE SECURITY OPERATIONS
• PACIFIC REGION
• [phone]
• Non Emergency  
• [phone]
• MARSECPACIFIC_at_TC.GC.CA
• NATIONAL
• MARINE SECURITY OPERATIONS
• 24-HOUR EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER
•  1-888-857-4003
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Partnerships between Responders and Industry
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Partnership between Responders and Industry
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Next Steps

• Continued development of a comprehensive
  framework and guidance
• for training, drills and exercises to APEC
  economies
• Continued participation in exercises with our
  partners domestically and
• Internationally
• Strengthening our co-operation with our Industry
  and Government
• partners
• Developing further tools for industry
• Enhancing our public website with valuable
  information
• Dedicating resources to build and support a
  National Exercise program
• Annual Exercises with our International neighbors
• -National
• -Region/District
• Exchange of information and lessons learned
  through organizations I.e. APEC

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The building of an exercise program can be
accomplished if it is done in a manner that
promotes communication and co-operation

• Thank you

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