Homeland Security Committee
The Homeland Security Committee (HSC) shall serve as the IACP's central coordination point for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) information, issues, policy development, and program reviews. The HSC will provide the IACP leadership with a consortium of expertise chartered to advise on a full spectrum of issues including, but not limited to, the review of draft DHS policy documents and relevant legislative proposals. The HSC will assemble, prioritize, and articulate law enforcement's most critical needs and issues and provide them to DHS, a complex and rapidly evolving national protection agency. The HSC shall consist of no more than forty members to be organized with five subcommittees:
- Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence
- Critical Infrastructure
- Equipment
- Special Events
- Training.
Currently, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Chief Kerry Pettingill chairs this committee with New York State Police Staff Inspector David McBath serving as vice-chair. A mid-year meeting is scheduled to be held in Oklahoma City, OK on June 3-5, 2013 with additional details and an agenda to be posted here. Tentatively, areas to be discussed will include fusion center support/sustainment, cyber-security, unified messaging efforts, disaster mitigation, and countering violent extremism. This meeting will be co-hosted by the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Staff Liaison:
James T. Bryan, Program Manager
Information Sharing Initiatives
703-647-6812.
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