Mission

To provide guidance, direction and coordination in mobilizing, organizing, and preparing the City of Columbus for acts of terrorism and man-made or natural disasters.  The Columbus Office of Homeland Security shall develop and coordinate the implementation of a comprehensive local strategy and shall perform the functions necessary to carry out the mission.

Mission Areas

• Prevent:

Actions to avoid, intervene, or stop an incident from occurring.

Prevention includes:

• Actions to protect lives and property
• Analyzing intelligence
• Countermeasures/Deterrence Operations
• Heightened inspections
• Improved surveillance/security operations
• Investigations
• Public Health and Agricultural surveillance
• Immunizations
• Isolation/quarantine
• Interdiction/Apprehension
• Disrupting Illegal Activity

• Protect:

Actions to reduce the vulnerability of critical infrastructures or key resources.

     Protect includes:

o   Continuity of government and operations planning

o   Awareness/understanding threats and vulnerabilities to critical facilities.

o   Sector-specific protection practices

o   Voluntary security and related information sharing

• Respond

       Activities that address short-term, direct effects of an incident.

        Response includes:

o   Immediate actions to save lives, protect property

o   Meet basic human needs

o   Execution of emergency operation plans

o   Mitigation activities

o   Applying intelligence

o   Increase security operations

o   Continuing investigations

o   Public Health/Agricultural surveillance

o   Immunizations

o   Isolations/quarantine

o   Law enforcement operations

o   Interdiction

o   Apprehension

o   Disrupting Illegal Activity

• Recover

 Activities that include the development, coordination and execution of service and site restoration plans; government operations and services, individual private-sector, non-governmental and public-assistance programs to provide housing and to promote restoration; long-term care and treatment of affected persons, social and economic restoration,
evaluation of the incident to identify lessons learned, and initiatives to mitigate the effects of future incidents.

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