The communications required to support law resource operations must be reliable and redundant to insure worker safety and the accurate, efficient and speedy transmission of collected data to multiple sites.
- Law enforcement resources will operate with a minimum of two frequencies/channels (talk groups) to provide:
- Resource to their division Supervisor/Safety Officer to report monitoring results, work rule and respiratory compliance data, coordinate support (ambulances/ mobile decon assistance /logistic items/ law enforcement swat teams/ wreckers, etc.), receive situation updates, brief new missions and provide command guidance. (See Annex E, Communications for Specific Frequencies.) and,
- To provide internal task force communications between vehicles and personnel when dismounted to control convoy and on scene response operations.
- Prior to departure from the staging area, the law resource will conduct a communications check of all mobile and hand held radios and the Wi-Fi/IRIS.
- The Safety Officer will monitor communications between the law resources. (see Annex E, Communications for Specific Frequencies.) If the Safety Officer becomes aware of a threat to any law resources due to a shift in weather conditions; unrelated hazardous conditions (tornado warning, downed power lines, dam failure, conventional hazmat event, ongoing terrorist activities, etc.); or escalation of the event at UMCD, he can immediately order a halt to all operations over the operations channels.
- All positive agent readings will be immediately reported to the Operations Section and Incident Commander via the CSEPP operations channel. (See Annex E, Communications for Specific Frequency.)
- The Safety Officer will receive positive monitoring reports via radio and Wi-Fi/IRIS.