assignment

Written exercise 5 Scenario

It has been several weeks since major Warren received news that he had been selected to be the Incident Commander and principal planer of the DNRC ( Democratic- Republican National Convention) scheduled for August of next year. Upon hearing the news, Major Warren immediately got to work. He met with captains and lieutenants, and he reached out to other commanders in the Miami-Dade Police Department in order to pick their brains. There were many commanders with plenty of experience in planning large scale special events such as this one, and Warren was not embarrassed to ask questions. That was his personality and his leadership style. He felt very secure of himself and did not feel threatened by others ideas. In these past few weeks, major warren had forced himself to take a crash course on large scale special event planning. He had been involved in the planning of smaller events, and he had considerable experience in handling large critical incidents, but this was a different matter altogether. The more he learned, the more he realized how little he knew, and how much he had to catch up on. During this time, Major Warren had met with Major Camille Ingram, the Commander of the Criminal Intelligence Bureau. Warren had asked Ingram to focus her bureaus attention to protest groups that were likely to target the DRNC for disruptive demonstrations. Ingram agreed and assigned two of her top analysts to focus exclusively on the DRNC. Warren and his staff were put on a regular distribution list and received daily intelligence reports via e-mail from CIB. Most of these intelligence reports were from open sources, and readily available to the public. Warren and his lieutenants were way too busy to look for these articles and blogs on their own. That is why the two analysts that were assigned to the DRNC became such a valuable asset. Major Warren soon cane to the realization of how many different players were involved in planning and execution of the DRNC. There seemed to be hundreds of interested parties in this event, and did not ta2ke into account the possible protest groups that were likely to show up. He realized that before he could proceed in the planning event, he needed to formulate some general policies and strategies. To do that, he needed to account for all the players likely to be involved in, or affected by the policy. He needed to know who his partners would be and who his adversaries would be, He needed to know what their expectations were and what the possible points of conflict would be. Lastly, he needed to know how these groups would interact with one another. Warren had graduated two years earlier with his master’s degree in public administration and he had learned about stakeholder analysis during his studies. He decided to put his knowledge to work for a principle application. He wrote an e-mail to Major Ingram requesting that the CIB put together a comprehensive list of stakeholders that are likely to involve in the DRNC. He asked that the list of stakeholders include all partners and possible adversaries. Finally, he asked if CIB would conduct a comprehensive stakeholder analysis and to include a stakeholder map with their report. Major Ingram agreed to this and told Warren that he would have his stakeholder map within a week.