Global Terrorism

Emergency Plan: Part II

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Emergency Plan: Part II

Brief description of items to be covered in parts of the plan

1. Resiliency planning

i. Critical infrastructure

a) Segments of concern in Metropolis, FL City

· Learning institutions, Government institutions and Government utilities and services.

b) Threat Analysis

Critical Infrastructure attacks will be measured according to magnitude of disruption of the following sectors:

· Public utilities and services, including Education and Health.

· Transportation, including highways, other roads, drainage and bridges.

· Essential government services and structures, including water and electricity.

c) Proposed Actions

· Reconnaissance of existing status of infrastructure: This is important so as to establish the current conditions of the critical infrastructure. A SWOT analysis will be used to show the strengths and weakness which will help to establish which segment requires more emphasis in terms of improving resilience against terrorist emergencies.

· Conformity with the require standards and regulations relating to installation of critical infrastructure: These are tested standards that must be adhered by every structure. They ensure that the infrastructure is strong and does not stand as a possible threat by itself or a constraint to public safety and security.

· Mapping potential hot spots for terrorist attack.

· Setting up emergency response systems close to these hot spots.

· Establishing infrastructure to serve as alternatives.

ii. Valuable natural resources

a) Segments of concern in Metropolis, FL City

· Natural environment including, water bodies and water sources

· Supply and distribution utilities

b) Threat Analysis

· Establish foreign elements in water, air or land.

c) Proposed Actions

· Alternative utility rerouting: An alternative route for utility such as water will be used in case of a risk incident. The alternative route will be a kept secure and will only be used when need arises.

· Conduct quality tests for water and natural resources: Routine tests ensure no foreign components have been introduced into the water system by the terrorists.

· Conformity with the standards and requirements by natural resource agencies: Agencies responsible with the quality of the environment ensure clean air, water and soil compositions by stipulating regulations that limit the amount of foreign elements into the environment.

iii. Society and the community

a) Segments of concern in Metropolis, FL City

· Every member of the population regardless of race, gender, religion and culture.

b) Threat Analysis

· Analysis of interruption caused by political or social hate speech, use of abusive and redundant information.

· Interruption cause by issuance of threats to commit acts that harm human life or general security of the city.

c) Proposed Actions

· Creation of a safe and surveyed communication network channel: The communication network will be subjected to constant reviewing aimed at improving its security status and identifying possible terrorist threats.

iv. Businesses and industries

a) Segments of concern in Metropolis, FL City

· Central business district, Markets, Malls and manufacturing industries.

d) Threat Analysis

· Analysis of potential impact of terrorist attack on the economy of the City.

· Impact analysis on the number of casualties.

e) Proposed Actions

· Conformity with the workers safety and emergency response regulation: This will help workers escape into safety once terrorist strikes.

· Conformity with the building codes that provides for safer designs of structures that will enable people to get to safety faster: These are human-friendly designs which do not constrain safety measures.

2. Reactionary planning

i. Agri-terrorism

a) Segments of concern in Metropolis, FL City

· Livestock and Crop production

· Welfare of livestock and crop health

b) Threat Analysis

· Evaluating number of livestock fatalities.

· Estimating the amount of loss in monetary value.

c) Proposed Actions

· Regular Vaccination, pest control and disease control.

· Coordination with the agricultural department to implement and enforce regulations relating to animal and crop production.

· Inspection of livestock and plants during shipment: Possible incident of infections need to be established and controlled to prevent the risk from spreading and causing more harm.

· Isolation and discarding of infected livestock and plants

ii. Building fires

a) Segments of concern in Metropolis, FL City

· Every building in the City.

b) Threat Analysis

· Documenting and updating number of fatalities.

· Examining fire coverage.

· Recording value of property lost.

· Initial damage assessment

c) Proposed Actions

· Coordinating with local authorities’ concerned with the collection, identification, and disposition of deceased persons.

· Temporary repairs

· Coordinating with charity agencies such as Red Cross.

· Coordinating with emergency response agencies such as Fire Fighters and bomb squad.

· Perimeter security

· Access and traffic control

· Crowd control

iii. Cyber-terrorism

a) Segments of concern in Metropolis, FL City

· Users of the social media

b) Threat Analysis

· Psychological impact analysis.

c) Proposed Actions

· Enhancing legislation concerning the use of social media.

· Coordination with security and safety agencies.

iv. Hostage situation

a) Segments of concern in Metropolis, FL City

· Members of the public.

b) Threat Analysis

· Evaluation of the physical and psychological health/condition of the victim

c) Proposed Actions

· Evacuation operations: Evacuation is part of the rescue mission where victims are taken away from the holding place to a much safer location.

· Notifying relatives: Contacting relatives is important to help find out the true identity of the casualty or victim of the incidence.

· Safeguarding evidence: Any material, equipment or tool in the scene of crime is collected as evidence piece. They are possible leads to inform more information about the terror activity.

· Fatalities management: In case of fatalities, coordination with agencies responsible for the collection and identification of persons will come on board.

References.

Cordesman, A. (2002). Terrorism, asymmetric warfare, and weapons of mass destruction: defending the U.S. homeland. Westport, Conn: Praeger.

NoAuthorFound. (2013). Kern county Terrorism response and recovery Contingency Plan

NoAuthorFound. (2010). The State of Florida terrorist Incident Response Annex

NoAuthorFound. (2017)State of Colorado Emergency Operations Plan terrorism Annex.