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Working together for a safer community the Australian context

Working together for a safer community the Australian context. Inspector Doug Hocking Major Event Planning and State Emergency Response Coordination Units - Victoria Police. Deputy Emergency Response Officer . DERO. Presentation Overview. Australian Incidents Shootings in perspective

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Working together for a safer community the Australian context

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  1. Working togetherfor a safer communitythe Australian context Inspector Doug Hocking Major Event Planning and State Emergency Response Coordination Units - Victoria Police

  2. Deputy Emergency Response Officer DERO

  3. Presentation Overview • Australian Incidents • Shootings in perspective • What goes wrong • ICS / NIMS/AIIMS • Australian changes

  4. Table Two • Summary of Shooting in Educational Facilities • From 1974 to 2007 • In USA • Number of Acts 1219 • Killed 625 • Wounded 1587 • Outside the USA *( Including Canada & Finland in recent times ) • Number of Acts 344 • Killed 910 • Wounded 2282 • (Lampe, A. 2007)

  5. Australia • Queens Street Shootings Melbourne – 8/12/1987. 9 Dead 4 Wounded • La Trobe University August 1999. ( Eagle Bar) 1 Dead, 1 wounded • Monash University, Clayton 21/10/2002) 2 male co students killed and wounded 4 other students and their lecturer (Butler & Anderson 2002). • Latrobe University Stabbing 8th of May 2007 Sarah Cheney, 25, intended to go on a killing spree when she hid in the library toilets, armed with a steak knives. 1 Student badly stabbed but survived

  6. Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery (All Hazards) Preparedness Prevention Activities Response Activities Prevention Response and Recovery Recovery and Prevention Response and Recovery Recovery Activities

  7. SIX GAPS IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Information ( too much, inaccurate) Communications ( lack of common networks, network failure ) Convergence ( lack of planning for) Responders Public Media Materials Control Structures (Poor planning - lack of, or no understanding of and/or lack of exercises ) Coordination ( Lack of ) Resource Management ( not knowing what is available or how to get it)

  8. Emergency Planning and Critical Incident Response • All campuses should conduct threat and vulnerability assessments • Mass communication capability through multiple means, high and low technology Multipoint communication, able to take some locations/people out of harms way • National Incident Management Framework • Response teams need to train together and know each other EXERCISE • Foster relationships between internal and external teams/agencies

  9. Empowerment of public safety function in the university • Security needs to be represented at the senior executive level • Emergency response and recovery plan developed at senior level • Inter-operational communication needs to improve. Different level of police forces in USA all have own code – need to have common code in order to understand each other • Sworn Staff -Capacity to question, detain and restrain – Citizen Arrest applies for indictable offences

  10. Prevention & Education to Reduce Risk • Education of community to increase mental health knowledge, particularly of university police • Panel including HR, student representative, mental health, legal, security/police to monitor and manage threatening behaviour • Protocols to remove high threat individuals from campus before they execute their plan. ( Intervention Orders Possible ) • Promote safety awareness through a range of modalities to ensure institutional and personal commitment to public safety from all those in the organisation. Security Technology • Provide a special response to victims of crime, and in particular, crimes against women.

  11. AUSTRALIAN CONTEXTACTIONS

  12. University Focus • Has been and remains on the radar of most Australian Universities. • A university that is perceived as safe may have a market edge in attracting overseas students. • Crisis/Incident Management Teams are now more common subject to the support of Senior Executives

  13. NEWS • NATIONAL EMERGENCY WARNING SYSTEM (NEWS) • One of a number of systems. • Telephony based to landline and mobile phone street addresses. • Starts 1st of December ( Phase 1) • July 2010 (Phase 2)

  14. Firearm Law • Section 183 of Firearms Act 1996 – immunity civil or criminal liability for registered medical practitioners, registered nurses and registered psychologists who notify Police that they believe that a person is not a fit or proper person to carry, possess or use a firearm.

  15. Mental Health Act • An exemption under sections 120A(3)(l) and 120A(3A) has been granted by the Minister for Health to allow the release of information to Victoria Police about people who are unfit to have a firearm. It replaces the previous exemption of 1 November 1996. The existing legal protection for mental health practitioners has been extended to unregistered psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists who notify Police that they believe that a person is unfit to have a firearm.

  16. National Incident Management System

  17. CONTROL Command/ Control PLANNING PLANNING LOGISTICS LOGISTICS OPERATIONS OPERATIONS INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION PUBLIC INFORMATION Incident Management Systems 1.Police – Incident Command & Control System (ICCS) 2. Australasian Inter-service Incident Management System – Incident Control System (AIIMS-ICS) • Both systems have the same 3 key principles; • Management by objectives • Functional management • Span of control

  18. PIO COMMAND SAFETY LIAISON LOGISTICS PLANNING FINANCE OPERATIONS SERVICE BRANCH COMMUNICATIONS MEDICAL FOOD SUPPORT BRANCH SUPPLY FACILITIES GROUND SUPPORT RESOURCES UNIT SITUATION UNIT DEMOBILIZATION UNIT DOCUMENTATION UNIT INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION UNIT TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS TIME UNIT PROCUREMENT UNIT COMPENSATION COST UNIT BRANCH BRANCH DIVISIONS & GROUPS GROUP STRIKE TEAMS & TASK FORCES RESOURCES US College - ICS Layout

  19. Northern Illinois University – Post VA Tech Reports • The Northern Illinois University shooting place on February 14, 2008, during which a gunman shot multiple people on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, killing six and wounding eighteen. • (Unlocked rear door of Auditorium)

  20. Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery Preparedness Prevention Activities Response Activities Prevention Response and Recovery Recovery and Prevention Response and Recovery Recovery Activities

  21. THANK YOU QUESTIONS douglas.hocking@police.vic.gov.au

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