CBRN & Police Response

[davidbfpo]

I have a colleague whose special subject is CBRN training for the police, with a view towards high profile events and security planning. Anyone know of any studies or reviews of the police response to CBRN?

A quick Google search found too many, mainly from a commercial viewpoint and he already has the recent RAND report.

davidbfpo

[sgmgrumpy]

Try Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program HSEEP website. Most the training information and exercise templates are open source.

HSEEP Mission Overview Briefing (http://www.crcpd.org/Homeland_Security/Overview-EEG.ppt)

The Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program is a capabilities and performance-based exercise program that provides a standardized policy, methodology, and language for designing, developing, conducting, and evaluating all exercises.

https://hseep.dhs.gov/pages/HSEEP_Home.aspx

[carl]

To save the other dopey civilians like me some time; CBRN stands for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear.

[bismark17]

Check your email.

[selil]

Wowser.. I just sat through a CBRN Homeland Security briefing about five hours ago... The whole time I was thinking NBC where have you gone? The explanation to me was the high explosive response wasn't in the original acronym and somebody gets paid by the letter at DHS.

[Stan]

I have a colleague whose special subject is CBRN training for the police, with a view towards high profile events and security planning. Anyone know of any studies or reviews of the police response to CBRN?

A quick Google search found too many, mainly from a commercial viewpoint and he already has the recent RAND report.

davidbfpo

We we were trained together with LE, Border Patrol, Customs and Military CBRN folks via a combine training task force of FBI, DTRA (http://www.dtra.mil/index.cfm) and CSC (http://www.csc.com/).

In sum, a very professional course specifically aimed at high profile events such as the POTUS' and Queen of England's visits.

[davidbfpo]

My colleague was impressed and spent a large part of the morning reading your replies. I will try to persaude him to copy his final report to you.

davidbfpo

[davidbfpo]

This week the UK released its first published assessment of the threat from CBRN: http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-publications/publication-search/cbrn-guidance/strat-countering-use-of-CBRN2835.pdf?view=Binary and one press response was: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/7500719/Nuclear-terror-risk-to-Britain-from-Al-Qaeda.html

Having quickly read the document there is little new about how the UK is responding, nor the actual threat - which is "hyped" up IMHO.