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Terrorist Threat Guidelines: Law Enforcement Planning and Response to Changing Threat Levels

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This course aims to introduce participants to the Terrorist Threat Guidelines and the Quick Reference Handbook so they can effectively utilize this resource in their planning and response efforts. To accomplish this goal, the course begins with a cursory review of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Participants receive an overview of the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), with particular attention focused on the Color-Coded Threat Level System.

Once familiar with threat conditions, participants turn their focus to the Terrorist Threat Guidelines document and the Quick Reference Handbook with emphasis on the importance of realizing when to use each resource.

New knowledge of threat level conditions and recommended actions is tried when individuals participate in a scenario-based tabletop exercise. Participants must determine whether the threat condition is affected and how their communication, protective, and preventive actions are impacted by the possible change in threat condition.

At the end of the course, participants reflect on what they have learned by assessing considerations unique to their local jurisdiction and how their agency policies, standard operating procedures, and/or emergency operation plans might be improved by incorporating aspects of the guideline documents.

Course Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Describe the evolution of the HSAS
• Differentiate among the five threat levels.
• Assess whether a threat constitutes a change in the threat level using the four factors identified in this module
• Give three examples of conditions which might initiate a change in the threat level
• Summarize the purpose and methodology of the Terrorist Threat Guidelines and the Quick Reference Handbook
• Accurately locate a specific type of recommended action within each threat condition and response area in the provided resources and differentiate how the action changes as the threat condition escalates
• Discuss how use of the provided resources might aid their agency’s emergency planning and response efforts

• Determine how the scenario conditions impact the local threat level
• Use the provided resources to formulate the appropriate response actions to the Elevated (Yellow), High (Orange), and Severe (Red) threat levels
• Assess the unique aspects of their jurisdictions.
• Discover ways to improve their department’s preparedness by identifying action items they could execute or recommend upon return to their agency
• Successfully complete a comprehensive post-test
• Provide feedback by completing a course evaluation form

Target Audience/Discipline
EMS, EMA, FS, GA, HZ, LE, PH

Scheduling
Contact a NCBRT training coordinator today to schedule this course.

Min/Max Enrollment Max 30

Hours 8.0 (Direct Delivery); 12.0 (Train-the-Trainer)

Format Instructor-Led Training (Direct Delivery; Train-the-Trainer)

DHS Course # MGT-325, MGT-325-1

Prerequisites
• To enroll in this course, participants must be U.S. citizens. It is recommended that participants have completed training on IS 100.a, IS 700, and IS 800.B
• Additionally, participants of the train-the-trainer course should have prior instructional experience and knowledge of instructional methodology and should have instructor certification by the authority having jurisdiction