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Terrorist Threat Guidelines

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

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.

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

Target Audience/Discipline
Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Management Agency, Fire Service, Governmental Administrative, Hazardous Materials Personnel, Law Enforcement, Public Health

This course is intended for decision makers in the law enforcement community who have the authority to take the information learned in this course and implement it within their respective agencies. Course participants may include head of agencies; command staff; commanders (watch, shift, district, bureau, etc.); policy advisors (to include those tasked with developing emergency plans); individuals in a liaison position; homeland security specialists; emergency managers; exercise planners; and, public information officers. Audience members may also include those from non-law enforcement agencies who have an assignment in the jurisdiction’s fusion center. Train-the-trainer participants may not need to have decision-making authority required of direct delivery participants; however, they should be qualified to train the direct delivery audience.

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

FEMA Regional Training Contacts
FEMA Region V, VII, and X
Jermainne Biagas 1-225-578-1133

FEMA Region IV, and VIII
Kristi Grace 1-225-578-7550

FEMA Region I, and II
Ryan Graham 1-225-578-3367

FEMA Region III, VI, and IX
Joseph Gueno 1-225-578-5528

Min/Max Enrollment Min 20; Max 30

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

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

DHS Course # MGT-325, MGT 325-1, and MGT-325-2

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

Facility Requirements
Please view this document for facility requirements

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Sgt. Richard Canez
Tuscaloosa Police Department
Tuscaloosa, AL

The possibilities of what can happen and to be prepared was invaluable. We actually use it to teach our Power Point presentation for the academy.