Critical thinking
Michelle_Michy
pt1.law_enforcement_crusial_task2.docxPt1. Crucial Tasks for Law Enforcement at Critical Incidents
Introduction
A mere 20 years ago when law enforcement responded to critical incidents, for the most part, the response was disorganized. An agency's policy manual may have designated who was in charge of the incident and under what conditions to activate SWAT but that was about it as far as a specific plan to deal with critical incidents. 9/11 changed all of that. Law enforcement has embraced the National Incident Management System (N.I.M.S.) along with a dozen or more other methods with various acronyms all designed to manage chaos. Multi- jurisdictional and multi-agency groups have been formed to respond as well. You might for example, have three SWAT teams, three fire departments, three EMT Jurisdictions, a Bomb Squad that might even include military personnel depending on the proximity to a military base and medical personnel from three jurisdictions, etc. all under one acronym to respond to one incident. The officers would all be sworn in, in all three jurisdictions. Regardless of how big the team may be, no response is effective without a plan.
Instructions
Go to this link: Article at LEB.FBI.gov (Links to an external site.) . Review the article, then utilizing what you learned from the article and additional research that you will need to do, do the following:
· Create a brief description of a large- scale critical incident. The length of your description is not important. What matters is the ability to apply all seven tasks to your scenario, so bear that in mind when creating your scenario.
· Identify the 7 critical tasks from the article above that must be done at a critical incident.
· Apply each task to the incident you created. You must explain what the task entails and make it applicable to the scenario you created. For example, explain why you chose specific distances for the inner and outer perimeter, why you chose a location for a command post, a staging area, etc. This part will require outside research in order for you to fully grasp what the task entails. Cite your sources.
