CJ 452

1 The National Incident Management System (NIMS)

CJ 452: 2 Terrorism & U.S. National Security

Adrienne N. Blackett

1 The National Incident Management System (NIMS)

3 The national incident management system is an important program that fits in with the material and information for this week in that it is applicable at all jurisdictional levels and across functional disciplines.  4 It is intended to be applicable through a full spectrum of potential incidents, hazards and impacts not taking into concern the size, location or complexity.  5 To improve cooperation and coordination between public and the private entities, in a variety of management of incident activities, provides a common standard for all incident management. 

4 National Incident Management system provides a consistent nationwide framework and approach that enables government at all levels including the private sector and nongovernmental organizations to work together to prevent, respond and recover the effect of incidents no taking into consideration the cause of the incident, location or complexity. 

The components of the NIMS are related with what Homeland security does and these components include; 5 preparedness, communications and information management, resource management, command and management and also ongoing management and maintenance.  The National Incident Management System is applicable to state, tribal and local governments, private sector organizations, the critical infrastructure owners and operators the nongovernmental organizations.  The elected and appointed officials who are always responsible for judicial policy decisions should always have an understanding of their emergency management roles together with their responsibilities to better serve the constituency. 

6 The relationship between NIMS and NRF is that they are companion documents that are designed to improve the Nations incident management and response capabilities.  5 NIMS provides the template for the management of incidents regardless of the size, scope or even the scope on the other hand NRF provides the structure and mechanism for national incident response and policy level.  Both the NIMS and NRF integrate the capabilities of various governmental jurisdictions, emergency response discipline and incident management and a seamless national framework for domestic incident response. 

4 The role of preparedness in NIMS is that preparedness is essential for effective incident and emergency management and it involves engaging in a continuous cycle to achieve and maintain readiness so as to respond to emergencies. 

The NIMS has made changes in the document and these changes are eliminated redundancy, there is increased emphasis on planning and added guidance on mutual aid and also highlighted relationship between NIMS and NRF. 

The purpose of the intelligence function is mainly to ensure all the intelligence and investigative operations, the functions and the activities within the incident management and incident response are managed properly, coordinated and directed. It is usually a system for the collection, analysis and sharing information. 

The National Incident Management System deals coordination when there are incidences within the country and on such times the Management system will try its best to control the incidence by informing the relevant authorities to reach out into the community to control the situation. They will also control the use of the allocated funds in such times to help the affected people. 

The National Incident Management System also does gather information from the public and from this information they will know where the potential threat is and how they can get rid of the problem. The information that they get from the local people they go and get more information on how they can prevent the problem or dig deeper into the information to check if it is reliable or not. 

The National Incident Management System also work together with the community response emergency team to curb terrorism, from the community teams they are able to reach the local community faster and provide security to the people.