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After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, in New York and Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon, cities and states across the United States took a hard look at their current crisis management plans (C...
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Fort Hays State University (FHSU), a picturesque academic institution on the plains of northwest Kansas, was created as a special act of Congress. Congress deeded the grounds of Fort Hays, a frontier ...
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, New Yorkers watched a blazing sunrise illuminate the twin towers of the World Trade Center, which represented the heart of U.S. commerce. In less than two hours, ...
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Editor’s note: The author was the police incident commander for the 2003 TOPOFF2 full-scale terrorism response exercise in Seattle and served as a controller and evaluator for the 2005 Marine Terror...
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Should the United States, or any portion of it, have to resort to large-scale quarantines to contain the spread of disease, it seems certain that state and local police will be deeply involved in ...
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Homeland security-namely, the protection of lives, the critical infrastructure, and the economic well-being of the state from terrorist attacks-has become part of the everyday vernacular of the CHP. T...
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Since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the entire law enforcement and emergency services sectors have had to review, and in some case redefine, their roles in their co...
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In Homeland Security Presidential Directive-5 (HSPD-5), President Bush called on the secretary of homeland security to develop a national incident management system to provide a consistent nationwide ...
