Policy Text
ACTIVE SHOOTER HOSTILE EVENT REPSONSE (ASHER)
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DEFINITIONS
1. Active Shooter Hostile Event Response
(ASHER): A response to an incident during which
one or more individuals are, have been, or are
likely to be actively engaged in harming,
killing, or attempting to kill people in a populated
area by various means, including, but not
limited to firearms, explosives, toxic substances,
vehicles, edged weapons, fire, or a
combination thereof.
2. Ballistic Protection Equipment (BPE): As
specified by NFPA 3000 Chapter 14.3, BPE
includes body armor at a minimum and
recommended ballistic helmet while working in the
warm zone.
3. Casualty Collection Point (CCP): A temporary
location used for the gathering, triage
(sorting), medical stabilization, and evacuation of
nearby casualties where vehicular access
might be limited. This generally occurs in the
Warm Zone.
4. Complex Coordinated Attack: Multiple
asymmetric attack modes such as firearms,
explosives, fire and smoke as weapon and/or
vehicle assaults. It may also often involve
coordinated and concurrent attacks on multiple
locations which may consist of multiple attackers.
5. Contact Team: A team of law enforcement
officers or a single law enforcement officer tasked
with locating the suspect(s) and neutralizing the
threat.
6. Emergency Operations Plan (EOP): A
document that assigns responsibility to
organizations and individuals, sets forth lines of
authority and organizational relationships,
describes how people and property are protected,
identifies personnel, equipment, facilities, supplies,
and other resources, and reconciles requirements
with other jurisdictions.
7. Family Assistance and Survivor Care Center: A
secure facility established to serve as a
centralized location to support the reunification of
missing or unaccounted people, as well as
provide services and referrals to involved parties.
The Center also allows authorities and
organizations to collect and provide information
relevant to the event and investigation.
8. Family Reunification Center: A temporary site
(e.g. parking lot, sports field, etc.) established
ALL
immediately by the Incident Commander to
provide a central location for survivors, family
members, and friends so they may be reunited
with those affected by the event.
9. Improvised Explosive Device (IED): An IED is
an explosive device constructed and
deployed in ways other than in conventional
military action. It may be constructed of
conventional military explosives, or from
commonly found chemical ingredients.
10. Incident Commander (IC): The individual,
regardless of rank, responsible for all incident
activities, including the development of strategies
and tactics and the ordering and the release
of resources.
11. Incident Command Post (ICP): A stationary
work location used by the Incident Commander
or a Unified Command for the purpose of
command and control.
12. Incident Management System (IMS): A
process that defines the roles and responsibilities
to
be assumed by personnel and the operating
procedures to be used in the management and
direction of emergency operations to include the
Incident Command System (ICS), Unified
Command, multi-agency coordination system,
training, and management of resources.
13. Mass Casualty Incident (MCI): Any incident in
which emergency medical services resources
are overwhelmed by the number and severity of
the casualties.
14. Media Staging Area: A location designated by
the Incident Commander in coordination with
the Joint Information Center (JIC) where
credentialed members of the press are directed. At
reasonable intervals, press briefings will be
provided within this area.
15. National Incident Management System
(NIMS): A comprehensive, national approach to
incident management that is applicable at all
jurisdictional levels and across functional
disciplines. It is intended to be applicable across a
full spectrum of potential incidents, hazards,
and impacts, regardless of size, location or
complexity; improve coordination and cooperation
between public and private entities in a variety of
incident management activities; and provide
common standard for overall incident
management.
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ACTIVE SHOOTER HOSTILE EVENT REPSONSE (ASHER)
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16. Perimeter (Inner and Outer): The inner
perimeter is used to control the access and
movement of responders. The outer perimeter is
used to control access of the public.