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The need for swift, decisive deployment of homeland security assets, to ongoing, lethal situations, where delay often results in death to innocents, has gradually evolved. Conceptually around for decades, the first-responder catchphrase since the late-1990s is Immediate Action-Rapid Deployment (IARD). Baker discusses the change in patrol's role in response to homeland security.
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Patrolling the New Homeland
The need for swift, decisive deployment of homeland security assets, to ongoing, lethal situations, where delay often results in death to innocents, has gradually evolved. Conceptually around for decades, the first-responder catchphrase since the late-1990s is Immediate Action-Rapid Deployment (IARD).
But what does IARD mean to the contemporary police chief? Does it require the development of a proactive blueprint for rapidly responding to active shooters in the community's schools? Or is it meant to think outside the school, workplace, or sportingevent box? Maybe the chief needs to look at airports or perhaps major utility infrastructures? Watersheds? Power plants? Bridges? Dams...See the full content of this document
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