I will conduct a Homeland Security Assessment for my organization because the need for homeland security is tied to the underlying vulnerability of my company’s infrastructure in general, but I would conduct one for any threats against the infrastructure of my company. In our company we would need to establish a planning team to conduct Homeland Security Assessment for my organization by developing a plan Also, Analyzing capabilities and hazards in company to minimizing the threat.The next step is to Implementing the plan. Another, step in conducting Homeland Security Assessment is getting prepared.The company game plan for homeland security set homeland security task into six critical mission areas: (1) comprehension and caution(2) boundary and transport security, (3) Military personal design to prevent any kind of terrorism, (4) protecting the company critical organizational structure (5) guarding against disastrous terrorism in the company like people getting shot up, and (6) the company's organizational structure crisis preparedness and response. The first three critical mission areas focus on stopping a terrorist attack. The next two on reducing protectiveness, and the final one is reduced to a small amount of damage and recovery from …show more content…
an attack on this company like the one on the company in San Bernardino(Fisher,2013,p.1,2). I have aligned my organization's business plan by conducting a Homeland Security Assessment with the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria of internal self-assessment.
This test will assess the organization’s performance excellence. The Baldrige Award Criteria are directed toward maximizing the overall effectiveness and productivity of my company’s organization in seven categories First, leadership looks at how the organization’s address leadership values, directions, and performance. Second, Strategic Planning looks at how the organization develops strategies and plans and how they are sent out. Third, Customer and Market Focus on how the requirements of the organization and expectation of the company’s and its customer
preferences. Fourth, Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management looks at how the organization improves its data, gathers, analysis, and manages it. FIfth, Human Resource Focus on how the organization’s works to develop motivated employees to use their full potential in alignment with the action plans for my organization. Six, Process Management looks at the center aspects of our organization’s process management, Seven, Business Results looks at the overall performance and improvement in key business of our company. This includes financial/marketplace, customer satisfaction, human resource and operational performance. The Malcolm Baldrige Criteria of internal self-assessment is a solid model to follow prior to applying it. The Malcolm Baldrige Criteria outline the organization’s mission, programs, resources, and needed support areas by Identifying what works well,looking at adjustments and determining the best approach including strategic plan and roadmap with an alignment path.
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 directly relates to the National Incident Management System and the National Response Framework. In fact, it directly correlates with their missions. HSPD-5 was the directive that needed to start things in motion; NIMS and the NRF are the aftermath of the directive. With the formation of NIMS and soon after the NRF, America can operate successfully under one national manage...
After the fear of terrorism grew in the United States do to the Al Qaeda 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the US Government found a need for a centralized department that umbrellas all other agencies when it comes to homeland security. The U.S. Government found this umbrella agency with the passage of the Homeland Security Act by Congress in November 2002, the Department of Homeland Security formally came into being as a stand-alone, Cabinet-level department to further coordinate and unify national homeland security efforts. (Homeland Security) With the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the government had a pinpoint location for the collection and gathering of intelligence, control of policies that effect national security, and a no fail mission. The Department of Homeland Security started to engulf other agencies and created many more, a total of 22 agencies now fall under the DHS. The DHS is control of all areas that deal with national security which included but are not limited to coastal and boarder protection, domestic terrorism, international terrorism, protection of the American people, protection of key infrastructure, protection of key resources and respond to natural disasters.
Homeland security is an American measure to ensure the security of the country. It is the national effort to ensure safety, security, and strength against terrorism and other issues, The goals of homeland security is to which will minimise the vulnerability of the U.S. to terrorism, and reduce the number of damages to the country.
Homeland Security’s mission is “to secure the nation from the many threats we face. With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.”[3]
In Chung’s (2017) article, “America’s Top Border Cop,” he interviews Carla Provost. Carla Provost is a female Border Patrol agent that has climbed the ladder with hard work and dedication to become the first female acting chief of the U.S. Border Patrol. Ms. Provost recognizes that she is the leader of a group that is mainly made up of men, but she views all Border Patrol agents equally. Ms. Provost sums up her feelings by stating, “What I mean is I see myself as a Border Patrol agent. And no difference between female agents, male agents-we’re all border patrol agents” (Chung, 2017, p. 3).
Homeland security is the way Americans put forth the effort to ensure the homeland is safe, secure, and stands firm against terrorist acts and other hazard that could put the health and welfare of the American people. The mission of the Homeland Security is to prevent terrorism, secure and protect our open borders, uphold all immigration laws, safeguard and secure cyberspace, and be content and resilient when it pertains to disasters.
The Baldrige criteria provide a structured approach to achieve performance excellence and an ideal set of performance and quality criteria toward which an organization should continuously strive. The criteria are used to help organizations assess their improvement efforts and to diagnose their overall performance management system (Byrne, 2003). The Baldrige criteria address seven major categories, each with sub-criteria and allocated points. In the Business Criteria for Performance Excellence, these categories are: 1.
This will contain the role and duty of private security as well as meeting or junction with policing, homeland security, corrections and other related areas. By constructing and developing the data, it is assured that the information gathered is accurate and useful for private security functions. Works Cited Homelandsecurity.com U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program. Washington D.C. ; U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2008.
The first area is the Department of Homeland Security’s mission. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created in 2002 by the Homeland Security Act. In 2003 the DHS started their operations. The DHS primary responsibilities and objectives includes prevention, protection, and response to issues that threaten national security. There are five core missions that define the DHS: Managing and securing our nation’s borders, strengthening security initiatives to help prevent terrorism, administering and enforcing the nation’s immigration laws, ensuring that the nation can rebound fast and or prevent disasters, and ensuring the internet is secure by instituting safeguards that protect the nation against cyber-attacks. (TWH, 2003)
The Homeland Security Unit works with the Fire Department, the local Homeland Security Unit based in San Francisco, NCRIC, the San Francisco Sheriffs’ Department, Coast Guard, National Guard, and the Department of Emergency Service to name just a few. Monthly meetings are held to plan for natural disasters but not specifically for acts of terrorism. Currently we are working on an evacuation plan in the case of a natural disaster. This plan would identify specific locations for the public to meet in the event of a natural disaster. These locations would be the used as a meet up point to transported individuals out of San Francisco in cases of an emergency.
Each organization uses these criteria to make an assessment of itself based on three primary principles. The organization must define what is important to them, how they are planning to satisfy what is important to them, and score themselves based on how well they have fulfilled what is important to them (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2015). Companies who are planning to apply for the Baldrige Award should expect to commit a large amount of time and resources to the process. Although, with every completed application, companies are given an opportunity for a team of experts to thoroughly examine their business and identify areas of improvement (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2014). The Baldrige Program committee is extremely dedicated, according to, (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2014), “Five to eight trained experts from an independent Board of Examiners spend a minimum of 300 hours reviewing each application”.
The National Strategy is a plan to help prevent the disruptive of a terrorist attack and to protect the people of America from any damage that done was done during the attack, and help respond to any incident that does occur and also help the country recover quickly. The National Strategy was a plan that was developed by the White House Office of Homeland Security to help protect the American people safety. The National Strategy focuses more on providing guidance and organizes the efforts of agencies within the federal government that play a role in the National Homeland Security. The National Strategy also set goals to meet to reassure the safety of America by implementing policy and agendas with the responsibility to fulfilled in order to
Police officers can hold you for up to fourteen days if you are arrested under the Terrorism Act. Which includes any person that engages in domestic terrorism, any act dangerous to human life, that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to intimidate a civilian population, influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion. Indefinite detention is the incarceration of a person by a national government without trial. Government officials should not have the right to detain suspected terrorists without trial because it violates the essence of American process and the rule of law.
Department of homeland security has the office of intelligence and analysis coordinates with the intelligence received from the DHS agencies. Also, intelligence information was shared with other agencies on a need to know basis in the past. The reason for that is because federal agencies were unwilling to work with the state and local agencies (Walker, 2016). Later the model of thinking got changed because it was unacceptable. As of now, the state, local, and federal agencies have fusion centers as a system of sharing information.
Homeland Security was created before the 9/11 terrorist attack ever occurred, there were already discussions being made by elected officials. The officials were analyzing possible threats since the late 1990’s, when the bombings occurred with the World Trade Center in 1993, Oklahoma City 1995, and the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. When those attacks occurred, this is when our nation was exposed to the vulnerability of our nation’s security (Noftsinger, J.B., Newbold, K.F., Wheeler, J.K., 2007). This is when the federal commissions started to investigate the preparedness of the United States and provide recommendations to support such efforts. When the terrorist attacked our nation on 9/11, this is when the federal government