RHSCC Strategy Plan

The needs assessment and strategy plan was originally approved by the MARC Board of Directors and Regional Homeland Security Coordinating Committee in November/December 2003, and updated in October 2005.

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The plan consists of three parts:

• An introduction, which outlines the purpose, vision, focus, coordination and effort of the RHSCC, and describes the jurisdictions and regions included.
• Descriptions of the RHSCC's goals, objectives and implementation steps. The goals are listed below. For details about the objectives and implementation steps, see the plan document.
• An evaluation plan that outlines how the committee and the region will monitor progress.

RHSCC Goals

1. Develop relationships and capabilities to deter, respond to and recover from all major disasters, including acts of terrorism.
2. Provide all first responders that could be involved in CBRNE incidents with appropriate personal protective equipment.
3. Provide regional interoperability among local jurisdictions across the metropolitan region and across disciplines.
4. Provide a regional capability to manage and track personnel and volunteers at the scene of major incidents to ensure their safety and accountability.
5. Enhance the capacity of local communities to respond and recover from major incidents through fully functioning Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs).
6. Develop the capacity to work with the media prior to and during major disaster events including those involving CBRNE weapons.
7. Encourage citizen preparedness and develop the ability to utilize volunteers to supplement emergency response personnel during disaster events and to effectively manage community contributions in the recovery phase of a disaster.
8. Provide appropriate reference guides to address major incidents to include CBRNE for dispatch centers, emergency command vehicles, and first responder agencies.
9. Provide a regional capability to conduct technical rescue operations.
10. Enhance the region's capabilities to respond to hazardous materials incidents involving a broad range of substances, and to decontaminate affected people, facilities and equipment.
11. Increase the region's public health surveillance and investigation capability to enable early detection of disease and determination of who is at risk and in need of treatment/prophylaxis, isolation or quarantine.
12. Build the capability to stop the spread of disease(s)including those that are resistant to treatment.
13. Develop a regional capability to mass immunize and/or mass prophylax large numbers of persons in metro area.
14. Develop the capability to treat and manage large numbers of casualties that could result from a CBRNE incident or some other disaster.
15. Enhance the capabilities of local law enforcement, working in cooperation with federal and state officials, to strengthen information and collaboration capabilities.
16. Enhance the capabilities of local law enforcement, working in cooperation with federal and state officials, to reduce risks through conducting vulnerability assessments and hardening of potential targets.
17. Enhance the abilities of law enforcement personnel to respond to and recover from terrorist incidents and other disasters and work with other first responders.
18. Provide a regional capability to respond to CBRNE incidents involving explosives.
19. Provide a regional capability to respond to CBRNE events requiring special tactical officers/teams.