“An act to establish the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.” The establishment of the Executive department and its mission, the Secretary and its functions, and the duties of other officers. Contains a directorate for information analysis and infrastructure protection, and cov...
If you want to know just what kind of mental space Washington’s still-growing cult of “national security” would like to take us into, consider a recent comment by retired general and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. In late May onFox and Friends, heclaimedthat “the ...
“I am in no doubt had the device exploded it could have injured or maimed innocent members of the public and it is due to the efficient evacuations set in place in the surrounding areas that no one came to any harm”; military explosives experts were called in to help defuse the bomb...
The contributors to this practitioner-oriented edited volume examine the security challenges confronting colleges and universities, such as active shooters, bomb threats, crimes (including sexual rape), and fires. The volume is divided into three sections: first, the nature of the threats, conducting...
Training of first responders on the hazards of actual radiological and nuclear threats has been challenged by the difficulties of adequately representing those threats. Training against such threats would involve using hazardous, highly radioactive materials, experiencing actual radiation doses in training,...
security of air travel. Also, because implementation will take time, countermeasures cannot immediately mitigate today's terrorist threat. Procedural improvements such as flight crew training,changes to air traffic management, andimproved security near airports may be less costly than countermeasures and ...
Ensure personnel receive proper training on the Homeland Security AdvisorySystem and specific prearranged department or agency protective measures;and Institute a process to assure that all facilities and regulated sectors are regularlyassessed for vulnerabilities to terrorist attacks, and all reasonablemeasure...
All the security theatre over cupcakes and nude scanners wouldn’t have helped the traditional bomb in the luggage, planted on either an unsuspecting passenger or by unscreened ground staff. It’s not the security that has prevented bombs since 1965 and it’s not that bombs on planes are unw...
security training who can go into conflict zones to do contact tracing, build trust in communities experiencing conflict, and work effectively with foreign governments at the local, regional, and national level. As president, I’ll launch this Global Health Security Corps to ensure that we can ...
S&T, the Pentagon changing K-9 bomb detection DHS S&T Detection Canine Program partnered with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) to assist in developing a training initiative to add person-borne improvised explosive device (PBIED) detection capabilities to their canine teams. Traditionally, ...