Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative

Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative

The Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) program is intended to provide financial assistance to address the unique multi-discipline planning, organization, equipment, training, and exercise needs of high-threat, high-density, Urban Areas, and to assist these areas in building and sustaining capabilities to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from threats or acts of terrorism using Whole Community approach. Urban Areas must use UASI funds to employ regional approaches to overall preparedness and are encouraged to adopt regional response structures whenever appropriate. For FY 2016, UASI will enhance regional preparedness and capability by funding 29 high-threat, high-density urban areas. Grant recipients are encouraged to use grant funding to maintain and sustain current critical core capabilities through investments in training and exercise, updates to current planning and procedures, and lifecycle replacement of equipment. New capabilities that are built using homeland security grant funding must be deployable if needed to support regional and national efforts. States and Urban Areas are required to dedicate 25 percent of UASI funding to law enforcement terrorism prevention activities.

Alameda County Sheriff s Office has provided a sustainable regional training and exercise program for the region since July 2011. The Program serves multiple disciplines including: Law Enforcement Fire / Hazmat / USAR EMS Public Health / Health Care Emergency Management

2016 Training UASI Funded Training & Exercise 155 Training Courses Provided 4,918 Students Trained (RTEP) 6000+ Participants in Exercises 18,000+ Registered Participants in the Program National Domestic Preparedness Consortium 21 Courses Conducted 575 Students Trained 4

Total Courses Offered (2011 2016) 250 228 200 150 150 138 139 155 100 50 7 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 *Note: Includes additional courses funded by the Regional Catastrophic Planning Grant Program (RCPGP). RCPGP ended 12/31/2013. 5

Courses by Discipline (2015-2016) 155 Courses offered in 2016 (+12%) 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Law Enforcement EM & Public Safety Communications Fire Hazmat EMS Government Public works non profit Health Care & Public Health 2015 2016

Students Trained by County (2015-2016) 11.6% Increase in Students Trained Compared to 2015 1,200 1,000 800 600 400 200 - Alameda Contra Costa Marin Monterey Napa San Benito San Francisco San Mateo Santa Clara Santa Cruz Solano Sonoma Other 2015 2016

Students Trained by Discipline (2015-2016) 18.09% increase in Fire, HazMat, EMS students trained 31% increase in Health Care, Public Health students trained 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 Law Enforcement Emergency Management Public Safety Communication Fire HazMat EMS Government Public Works Non Profit Other Health Care Public Health 2015 2016

FY 15 UASI Budget

UASI Funded Equipment for County of Alameda First Watch Early Warning System (FY10 UASI Fund $190,000) First Watch Early Warning System is a real-time monitoring, data analysis and automated alerting system. Brass Trax-National Integrated Ballistic Information Analysis Station (NIBIN) (FY13 UASI Fund $209,577) This equipment will provide 3D images of fired cartridges and will allow the County of Alameda Sheriff s Office to more rapidly analyze data and search for links to other crimes where the same firearm may have been used. Automated Identification System Transponders (FY13 UASI Fund $9,965) The automatic identification system (AIS) is an automatic tracking system used on ships and by vessel traffic services (VTS) for identifying and locating vessels by electronically exchanging data with other nearby ships, AIS base stations, and satellites.

UASI Funded Equipment for County of Alameda OES Mobile Command Center Upgrade (FY14 UASI Fund $270,000) With completion of this upgrade, the MCC is now equipped with inter-operable radio systems capable of receiving real time information from multiple sources to relay critical information to the Sheriff s Department Operations Center/Emergency Operations Center. Realistic Simulation Trauma Mannequin (FY14 UASI Fund $82,000) TraumaFX is a training mannequin built with special effects technology. The purpose of this purchase is to increase proficiency in hemorrhage control and other life-saving interventions. POW Care Response Kit (FY14 UASI Fund $20,000) Alameda County Emergency Medical Services aim to improve survival from active shooter and other terrorist violence by decentralizing medical assets to provide lifesaving interventions at point of wounding. Unified Countywide Mass Notification System (FY14 UASI Fund $300,000) The Unified Countywide Mass Notification System is also known as AC Alert. This system will provide users with critical information quickly in a variety of situation such as earthquakes, fire, severe weather, unexpected road closures, missing persons and evacuations of buildings or neighborhoods.

UASI Funded Equipment for County of Alameda RapidHIT ID DNA Testing Device (FY15 UASI Fund $199,417) The RapidHIT System is a fully automated sample-to-answer system for STR-based human identification. The self-contained human identification system produces standardized DNA profiles from buccal swabs and other human samples in 90 minutes. Bio-Threat Identification through Next Generation Sequencing (FY15 UASI Fund $100,000) This equipment is to enable the capability to perform Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to detect and simultaneously to characterize biological terrorism agents. East Bay Regional Communications System Authority (EBRCSA) Dispatch Console (FY10-FY15 UASI Fund $4,378,000) This project allows the EBRCSA regional radio initiative to provide mission critical voice interoperability among multiple jurisdictions and multi discipline dispatch centers, emergency responders, command posts and EOCs for regular and emergency response operations.

48 Hour Continuous Exercise (September 9-12, 2016): 60 scenarios across 8 Bay Area Counties These scenarios addressed the core competencies and response capabilities of LE teams, EMS service providers, Hazardous Material/USAR/Maritime teams, EOD teams, as well as addressing critical infrastructure concerns. Through their participation in this exercise, over 6,000 individuals received crucial training and experience (local, state, regional and federal first responders, emergency managers, civilian/community volunteers and public/private partners). Yellow Command (September 8, 2016): 6 hour Full Scale Exercise Functional EOC Activation and Full Scale C-POD sites Joint Information System Activated

Recommendation: It is recommended that teams train in scenarios that encompass various rescue and victim response concepts, as well as various waterway challenges involving rivers, bay areas, and shallow draft locations.

After identifying Areas For Improvement, HSEEP provides recommendations of corrective actions through training, based on the Core Capabilities identified by FEMA and Bay Area UASI

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