Hypothetical Task Force Case Study

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Hypothetical Task Force In creating a hypothetical task force for the protection of the President of the United States is an immensely difficult and complex task. In its complexity, it is unlikely to ensure all the measures that can be devised to eliminate the entirety of the multitude of the diverse dangers that may arise. The protective measures also can become complicated by the reluctance of Presidents to take the security precautions that may interfere with the performance of their duties, or desire to have frequent and easy access to the people in which may leave an opening for someone such as Mark to follow through with his threats. The adequacy of the procedures that can be implemented after full consideration of the difficulty of …show more content…

This category is the most serious category because he threatened the president and may have the capabilities to carry out these threats. As part of the process of developing the incident response to these messages, the Administration will identify credible reporting of the threats, observe malicious activity, and personal activities identified by local and state agencies when investigated (The White House Office of the Press Secretary, 2016). This will establish a common framework for evaluating and assessing his demeanor to ensure that all agencies have a common view of the severity of a given incident, the consequent urgency of response efforts, and the need for escalation to senior levels. The threat response activities will include the local and state law enforcement and the secret service agencies to investigate the incidents, including a collection of evidence, linking potentially related incidents, gathering intelligence, identifying opportunities for threat pursuit and disruption, and to provide attribution (Steiner, 2009). The Secret service, acting through the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the local Law Enforcement will assess the threat. Asset response activities including providing technical assets and assistance to mitigate vulnerabilities and …show more content…

Due to the limited resources of the Secret Services, the assistance by the state level officials in risk management is to identify the risks and threats, prioritize them, and direct the federal, state, and local resources to act to minimize the likelihood of their occurrence and mitigate their consequences (Steiner, 2009). This process enables the stat leader to prioritize mitigation steps that can be taken based on the potential occurrence of risk and the economic and political capital available to such action (Steiner, 2009). Responses to risks such as Mark’s threats could fall in the major categories of prevention, protection, and response. In this intelligence is used to understand the threat as part of the risk-management process in which both current intelligence and longer term threat analysis are required to plan for management to make executive decisions and actions before such a crisis

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