THE CODE 1000 PLAN for ST. LOUIS COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES January 2013 1 of 12
Table of Contents SECTION 1.0 GENERAL... 1 1.1 Definition - Purpose - Applicability...1 1.2 Authority...1 1.3 Assumptions...2 1.4 Approval...2 SECTION 2.0 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE... 2 2.1 St. Louis Area Police Chief s Association...2 2.2 Mobile Response Team...3 2.3 Area Police Boards...3 SECTION 3.0 CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS... 4 3.1 Command and Control...4 3.2 Supervision...5 SECTION 4.0 ACTIVATION AND CANCELLATION... 6 4.1 Activation Procedure...6 4.2 Response...7 4.3 Cancellation...7 4.4 Arrest & Reporting...7 SECTION 5.0 COMMUNICATIONS... 8 5.1 Primary Interagency Emergency Channels...8 5.2 Call Signs...8 5.3 Ten Codes.....9 5.4 Secondary Frequencies.9 5.5 Normal Operations...9 5.6 Operational Headquarters...9 5.7 Cache Radios....9 SECTION 6.0 ATTACHMENTS I. Code 1000 Organizational Chart II. Map of The Five Code 1000 Areas III. Municipalities, Police Departments, Fire Agencies by Area IV. Committee Members V. Code 1000 Activation Procedures Enclosure 1 Dispatcher Checklist VI. ICS Principles and Features SECTION 7.0 Training 7.1 Exercises 2 of 12
CODE 1000 PLAN SECTION 1.0 GENERAL 1.1 Definition - Purpose - Applicability A. Definition: The Code 1000 Plan is an administrative and an operational law enforcement mutual aid contingency plan which coordinates the commitment and deployment of police resources within the geographic limits of St. Louis County, Missouri. B. Purpose: To provide a preplanned method of coordinating the mobilization and management of law enforcement personnel, equipment and expertise during a local or county wide emergency situation. C. Applicability: Law enforcement authorities may activate this plan anytime they have insufficient personnel, equipment or special expertise to maintain law and order during an ongoing crisis. Activation may be exercised if a participating jurisdiction believes additional resources may be needed to respond to an anticipated event that presents the potential for rapidly overwhelming local resources. 1.2 Authority Authority for the Code 1000 Plan is contained in the following: A. Revised Missouri Statutes, Chapter 70, Section 70.210, 70.220, 70.230, and 70.290 (2000), allows municipalities and counties to enter into Mutual Aid agreements for the effective use of all resources in the County during an emergency. B. Revised Missouri Statutes Chapter 70, Section 70.820, (2000), which allows peace officers who are in compliance with chapter 590, RSMo, to respond to emergencies outside the boundaries of the political subdivision from which they derive their authority. It authorizes arrest powers for officers of St. Louis County and the municipalities within the county, within the boundaries of any county of the first classification or of any city not within a county for violations of state law. C. St. Louis County Ordinance 701.200, (1992) which establishes authority for one police agency to cross over its jurisdictional boundaries and render mutual aid to other jurisdictions within the County during emergencies/disasters in order to restore or maintain the peace. It also allows the County Executive to contract for and request assistance for situations within unincorporated areas. 3 of 12
D. St. Louis County Ordinance 703.060 (1990) which compels the Director of Emergency Management to develop mutual aid plans which include and provide for the exchange of police services. E. St. Louis County Ordinance, Chapter 703, 1990 as amended, provides legal authority and establishes procedures for dealing with emergencies/disasters on a countywide basis. F. Municipal ordinances that authorize police agencies to cross over municipal boundaries and have full legal powers to restore law and order. G. Mutual Aid agreements which authorize St. Louis County government and signatory municipalities and fire protection districts within St. Louis County to render aid to one another. 1.3 Assumptions A. The possibility exists that various types of emergency situations may arise which could over extend the personnel capabilities, equipment and/or expertise of one or more law enforcement agencies within St. Louis County. B. There are sufficient law enforcement resources within St. Louis County, if properly coordinated and utilized, to provide for the maintenance of law and order and to provide emergency assistance to all County residents. C. An emergency/disaster situation could be multi-jurisdictional, thereby complicating command, control and coordination efforts. 1.4 Approval The St. Louis Area Police Chiefs Association has reviewed and evaluated this Code 1000 Plan and has approved its scope and content. SECTION 2.0 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 2.1 St. Louis Area Police Chiefs Association (SLAPCA) A. The Code 1000 Plan has been created by the St. Louis Area Police Chief s Association (Association). The Association has sole control and authority over the plan and any and all amendments to the plan will be in accordance with their bylaws. B. The chairman of the Association will place upon the Code 1000 Committee the responsibility for administration of this plan. The chairman of that 4 of 12
committee will be responsible for perfecting all amendments to this plan prior to requests for Association approval. The chairman will coordinate the training of police personnel in the plan's operation and mission with the Commander of the St. Louis County and Municipal Police Academy. C. The Code 1000 Committee will include the Commander of the Mobile Response Team, or a designated representative. 2.2 Mobile Response Team The Mobile Response Team (MRT) is a police unit comprising officers from the St. Louis County Police Department and various municipal police departments, whose mission is to provide specialized services to law enforcement agencies in St. Louis County. The MRT responds to requests by municipal police Chiefs that meet specific criteria as set forth by the MRT Board of Directors. The MRT officers are specially trained to perform functions such as; crowd control, area searches and dignitary protection. This plan is designed for use in instances requiring rapid deployment of additional personnel. An alternative to this plan is the activation of the MRT if time constraints allow. The MRT can be requested to provide additional personnel resources in lieu of Code 1000 activation. However, an MRT response requires adequate lead-time prior to the need for deployment. Additionally, if activated, the MRT is functionspecific and operates solely as a complete unit under the direction of the MRT Commander. 2.3 Area Police Boards The Code 1000 Plan divides St. Louis County into five geographic sectors, herein referred to as "Areas, for the purpose of assigning local police agencies and St. Louis County Police Department precincts into mutually supportive contingency planning groups. These areas are for administrative purposes only and are not intended to be restrictive during any Code 1000 activation. A. In each Area SLAPCA will select a chairman and an alternate who will hold the rank of Chief or the position of Precinct Commander. The Area Chairman and alternate will serve for a period of one year and may serve successive terms. B. Each Area Chairman will represent his Area as a member of the Code 1000 Committee of the St. Louis Area Police Chief s Association. C. Each Area Chairman, working in conjunction with the Code 1000 Committee, will be responsible for coordinating the logistical and 5 of 12
administrative aspects of conducting annual training for the Area's police personnel (police officers and civilian employees). D. Each Area Chairman will meet quarterly with all of their Area s Chiefs for the purpose of monitoring the readiness of the Area police departments to participate in a Code 1000 operation. Each Chairman will furnish a copy of the minutes of Area meetings to the Chairman of the Code 1000 committee. SECTION 3.0 CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS This Code 1000 Plan will be utilized to organize personnel, equipment and communications capabilities at the scene of an emergency. The plan describes personnel procurement procedures that can be used for a variety of large or small-scale incidents. By implementing this plan, law enforcement agencies and department Commanders do not relinquish their responsibilities or authority. Instead they combine their resources with neighboring departments to establish one integrated and effective response effort. Command and Control measures are flexible and dynamic and may be implemented in a phased fashion, depending on the needs of the initiating agency. The Incident Command System is an integral component of the plan. ICS is a standardized personnel management tool utilized by law enforcement agencies nationwide. Implementation is not mandatory but can be beneficial. Refer to Attachment VI for ICS concepts and principles. 3.1 Command and Control: Command and Control consists of those actions that involve directing, ordering, and/or utilizing resources by virtue of explicit legal, agency or delegated authority. A. Initially, Command and Control of a Code 1000 operation will be vested in the Chief of the jurisdiction in which the incident is occurring. The agency wishing to activate this plan will do so by the means described in Section 4.1 and Attachment VI. Additionally, coordination of responding personnel and resources will be the responsibility of the Chief of the initiating jurisdiction. It will also be the responsibility of that Chief to, in compliance with the Incident Command System mandates of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) guidelines: 1. Assume or designate the role of Incident Commander. 2. Establish an operations command post. 3. Designate an Operations Officer to coordinate incident tactical operations. 4. Choose and staff appropriate Staging areas. 5. Assign support staff to begin documentation procedures, etc. B. Upon the establishment of a Code 1000 operation, the MRT Commander or Deputy Commander will be notified by the St. Louis County Bureau of 6 of 12
Communications and will contact the Incident Commander. The MRT Commander will serve the Incident Commander in an advisory capacity regarding issues that may impact the subsequent activation of the MRT. C. If ICS is implemented during Code 1000 activation, the Incident Commander will have primary authority for law enforcement tactical control. All involved agencies will operate within the ICS structure under the general direction and coordination of the Unified Command function. D. In cases in which there are multiple scenes in one jurisdiction, the Incident Commander will appoint Scene Commanders for each location. When an incident is occurring in multiple jurisdictions, a Unified Command will be established to determine who will be the Incident Commander. In these situations the Incident Commander will appoint supervisory personnel from the jurisdictions in which the scenes are located, as scene Commanders. E. If a law enforcement emergency requires resources from local fire protection services, the fire service will appoint a fire service branch Commander who will have command and control over fire and EMS forces. The Incident Commander and fire service branch representatives will coordinate their efforts and maintain close lines of communication throughout the Code 1000 operation. F. In addition to law enforcement and fire service Commanders, a Unified Command structure may also include representatives from several private sector disciplines as well as state and federal government agencies. 3.2 Supervision: For each 5 patrol officers assigned to a Code 1000 activation, a request will be made for one supervisor. Thus if the initial call out is for 15 officers, the Bureau of Communications will attempt to acquire three supervisors. Those supervisors will not be counted among the fifteen. In the event supervisors cannot be acquired, the number of officers will not be changed and the requesting officer will be advised. SECTION 4.0 ACTIVATION AND CANCELLATION 4.1 Activation Procedure If a law enforcement agency is confronted with a police emergency that dictates the need for more police resources, the senior official on-duty (Police Chief or Watch Commander) may activate the Code 1000 Plan by contacting the St. Louis County Police Department's Bureau of Communications. The Shift Supervisor at the Bureau of Communications will implement the St. Louis County Police Department Bureau 7 of 12
of Communications Bureau Procedure number 00-96. This procedure will cause the immediate acquisition of supplemental police personnel from the surrounding community. Neighboring departments will be surveyed until a designated number of police officers can be assembled. The St. Louis County Police Department Bureau of Communications will contact surrounding agencies of the incident on point-to point and request them to provide information regarding the number of officers they can commit. Dispatchers will poll those agencies geographically within close proximity to the requesting agency. Input from those department s commanders and supervisors should be used to determine those numbers. In the initial phase of a Code 1000 activation, the originating Department has the option of asking for either 15 or 25 officers. In the initial phase of Code 1000 activation, the originating department has the option of asking for either 15 or 25 officers. If personnel needs supersede the capacity raised by the initial call-out, the senior official from the initiating agency may request that a subsequent phase of requests be made. Police departments further removed in proximity from the initiating agency will be polled to determine additional personnel availability. This phased approach will be utilized to assemble contingents of twenty-five officers per call-out. St. Louis County Police Bureau of Communications will also contact the Code 1000 Area Chairman of the area in which the Code 1000 is being called. This can be accomplished per the information contained on Attachment IV of the plan or by contacting the dispatch agency for the Police Department for which the Area Chairman is Chief or Commander. After assessing the situation, if the Area Chairman deems it appropriate, they will contact the Code 1000 Committee Chairman at that time. If not necessary to immediately contact the Committee Chairman, the Area Chairman will notify the Committee Chairman via e-mail or phone on the next working day. If the senior official needs the services of specialized units of other police agencies, he should request those contacts through the Bureau of Communications. For an anticipated event that presents a potential for overwhelming local police resources, the Chief of a participating agency will notify the Area board chairman. The agency s Chief, the Area Chairman and the Commander of the MRT will consider requests for activation under these circumstances. 4.2 Response Agencies requested to participate in a Code 1000 operation will provide information regarding resource availability to the Bureau of Communications. Agencies should be capable of indicating a base number of available officers given predominant staffing patterns. When instructed to do so, officers assigned to the Code 1000 8 of 12
operation will report to a Staging area for operational assignments designated by the initiating agency. Agencies participating in a Code 1000 operation will make all internal agency notifications deemed necessary by the Chief of that agency. In addition, each agency will notify the St. Louis County Bureau of Communications, via the Regional Justice Information System (destination terminal identification number MO095000062), of the names and department serial numbers of the officers responding from that agency. Updated lists will be provided as any additional agency representatives respond at later intervals. Personnel information will be forwarded to the Staging area supervisor. 4.3 Cancellation When the incident is stabilized and no additional resources are required, the Chief of the initiating agency will cancel the Code 1000 operation. He will have a point-topoint radio message transmitted to all participating departments, and will release personnel to their respective agencies. The St. Louis County Police Bureau of Communications will provide the appropriate notifications of the cancellation. 4.4 Arrest & Reporting Per Missouri Revised Statute Chapter 70, Section 70.820, Paragraph 5, persons arrested by officers from jurisdictions other than that wherein the incident is occurring, will charge the violators under State Statute only. For prosecutorial purposes each officer who makes an arrest will be referred to in the report as the arresting officer. An unwritten opinion rendered by the Office of the County Counselor is that the concept of using one arresting officer from the venue in which the incident occurred is legally unsound and would compromise any future court proceedings. Report preparation will be the responsibility of the initiating agency. It may be necessary to assign a documentation person to record which agencies are supplying personnel. This will facilitate the accurate assembly of information needed for the reporting process and future co urt testimony when needed. SECTION 5.0 COMMUNICATIONS Due to the comparatively large number of police dispatch centers providing communications services to St. Louis County's sixty four (64) police departments, coupled with the possibility of more than one department being involved in a single Code 1000 operation, it is anticipated that multiple dispatch center radio communications will be difficult. Therefore, all Code 1000 operational radio communications will be controlled and coordinated by the St. Louis County Police Department's Bureau of Communications. 9 of 12
5.1 Primary Interagency Emergency Channels In order to reduce communications problems, Code 1000 radio communications will be broadcast on the Police Emergency Radio for Interagency Operations and Tactics R.I.O.T. The primary radio frequencies and the order in which they are to be used in a Code 1000 operation are as follows: 154.725 MHz., RIOT A Main, Channel 11, Primary 155.730 MHz., RIOT B (Sheriff s Net), Channel 12, Alternate 156.180 MHz., RIOT D, Channel 14, Alternate 159.390 MHZ., RIOT E, Channel 15, Alternate 155.475 MHz., Police Mutual Aid, Channel 10, Alternate 153.965 MHz., Riot C (Police Incident Command), Channel 13, Portables Only The use of additional RIOT channels is at the discretion of the Bureau of Communications based upon need. All channels are licensed to and operate under the authority of the St. Louis County Police Bureau of Communications. 5.2 Radio Protocol 5.3 10 Codes Officers responding to the Code 1000, using mobile and/or portable radios on the R.I.O.T. frequencies, will immediately switch to RIOT A or the appropriate RIOT channel they were directed to use and verbally advise the dispatcher of the following information: a. The name of the police department to which they are assigned; b. Their department serial number (DSN); e.g. Kirkwood 34, University City 51, or St. Louis County 2872 c. When they are enroute. d. When they arrive on scene. e. When they are secure from the detail. The use of 10 Codes during Code 1000 activations will be discontinued. 5.4 Secondary Frequencies R.I.O.T. channels B, D, and E are alternate choices for expanded Code 1000 operations, as is the National Mutual Aid frequency, 155.475 MHz. The St. Louis 10 of 12
County Police Bureau of Communications will determine which operations shall commence on the various R.I.O.T. frequencies and shall oversee their usage. Special and support units having dedicated channels, should monitor the R.I.O.T. 'A' frequency, but use their dedicated channels for "in-house" traffic to reduce the number of transmissions on the R.I.O.T. 'A' frequency. The St. Louis County Police Department's Mobile Command Center has capabilities on all R.I.O.T. frequencies as well as various radio channels capable of providing communications with many supporting service agencies simultaneously. 5.5 Normal Operations Police agencies that have not been activated in a Code 1000 operation will continue to use their department's assigned frequencies and radio call signs so as not to interfere with priority traffic on the R.I.O.T. frequencies. 5.6 Operational Headquarters A Unified Command structure may designate a municipal police department's dispatching center as an operational headquarters. The dispatching center must have the capability to dedicate one console and dispatcher for the Code 1000 incident, have capability on the R.I.O.T. 'A' frequency, and still have the ability to dispatch that department's normal calls for service. 5.7 Radio Caches There are radio caches staged at various locations in St. Louis County. These radios were acquired with Homeland Security funds and are available as needed during a Code 1000 activation. The radios have capabilities on Fire Command and all RIOT Channels. The locations of these radios can be ascertained by contacting St. Louis County Police Department Bureau of Communications. SECTION 6.0 ATTACHMENTS The following attachments are separate and distinct documents of this plan. They support the basic tenets of the Code 1000 Plan. Each document is assigned a section number for association purposes. I. Code 1000 Organizational Chart II Map of the Five Code 1000 Areas III. Municipalities, Police Departments, Fire Agencies by Area IV. Committee Members V. Code 1000 Activation Procedures Enclosure 1 Dispatcher Checklist VI. ICS Principles and Features 11 of 12
SECTION 7.0 TRAINING 7.1 Exercises One plan activation exercise will be conducted in each Code 1000 area annually. The committee will determine as a whole what the exercise schedule will be. Approved: Chief Glenn Eidman Creve Coeur Police Department Chairman, Code 1000 Committee, 2013 Date: 12 of 12