Individual Project 5
You are the emergency manager in a city of 200,000 people in the Midwest United States and are working on your long-term budget. You feel that you need extra resources to ensure that your city can effectively respond to emergencies and disasters, especially acts of terrorism; however, your city manager will not approve any additional spending or requests to seek grant funding until she fully understands the logistical and technical requirements associated with 21st-century emergency response.
Therefore, your city manager has directed you to draft a report that provides an overview of state homeland security and emergency management strategy and how the local level uses the state strategy to develop policies.
Assignment Guidelines
- Address the following in a report of 750–1,000 words:
- How do the following 3 Homeland Security Presidential Directives apply to state-level strategy development?
- HSPD-3
- HSPD-5
- HSPD-8
- How does the National Strategy for Homeland Security (NSHS) apply to state governments and emergency managers? Explain.
- What challenges and barriers exist with regard to state homeland security strategy that are not present at the federal level? Explain.
- Specifically, how are local-level policies developed using state homeland security strategy? Explain.
- What types of policies would need to be addressed to effectively respond to a terrorist attack on your city’s critical infrastructure? Explain.
- You should ensure that you include detailed policy descriptions of the following:
- Human resources
- Technology
- Equipment
- You should ensure that you include detailed policy descriptions of the following:
- What policies could be put in place to fully accommodate interagency collaboration and innovative thinking? Explain.
- How do the following 3 Homeland Security Presidential Directives apply to state-level strategy development?
- Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
