The New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (NYS DHSES), which was recognized for ‘Excellence in Public Safety,’ in the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, has announced their Office of Fire Prevention and Control is undertaking a new effort to help protect the state’s firefighters and their families from the threat of cancer.
Firefighters are experiencing cancer at higher rates than the general public, largely due to their exposure to an increased level of toxins found in smoke at structure and other fires.
In order to ensure New York’s firefighters are not only aware of this threat, but know how to limit their own risk, State Fire officials have developed basic protocols for decontaminating firefighting gear following a response call and will be traveling throughout the state to promote their use by firefighters.
(Since 2002, almost two out of every three firefighters who died on the job died of cancer, as smoke from today’s fires produces an ever-more toxic brew of chemicals. But many first responders diagnosed with cancer are being denied workers’ comp benefits. Hear from firefighters who are battling more than just flames. Courtesy of CBS Sunday Morning and YouTube. Posted on Jun 16, 2019.)
Research has repeatedly shown that the simple and inexpensive steps being promoted as part of this effort – can reduce the exposure of firefighters and their families to toxins and other carcinogens by up to 85 percent.
As research continues to demonstrate the elevated risk of cancer the brave men and women of New York’s fire service face, it’s critical we ensure they have the tools and information they need to protect themselves and their families,” explained New York State Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Patrick A. Murphy.
“Thanks to the tireless efforts our dedicated staff in the Office of Fire Prevention and Control, we haven’t only found simple ways to greatly reduces one’s exposure to carcinogens, we are bringing this information directly to our local partners throughout the state.”
“State Fire is taking the lead in New York to help firefighters make the changes necessary for protecting their health,” added New York State Fire Administrator Francis Nerney.
“Smoke from every fire contains toxic chemicals linked to cancer and by taking basic steps to educate our brothers and sisters in the fire service, we can begin to change the culture and get the safe behaviors we are promoting into action.”
If firefighting turnout gear is not decontaminated properly after a fire, these firefighters can carry the harmful chemicals to their firehouses and homes, cross-contaminating co-workers and even family members.
According to two studies conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), firefighters are being diagnosed with cancer at a nine percent higher rate than the general public, and are experiencing cancer-related deaths at a 14 percent higher rate.
To combat these trends, the State Office of Fire Prevention and Control has established some basic, inexpensive protocols which will go a long way in limiting firefighters’ exposure to the harmful chemicals commonly found in smoke.
Under these recommended protocols:
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Firefighters are rinsed off with a garden hose at low pressures to remove large contaminates upon completion of their work at the scene.
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They are then sprayed with a liquid dish soap and water solution and scrubbed with soft bristled brushes
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The Firefighter is rinsed again with the low-pressure garden hose and then washes their helmet
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Finally, the gear is bagged for transport to prevent contamination from spreading and subsequently washed following their individual department’s policy
Throughout the next year, state experts will travel across the state to bring these inexpensive protocols directly to firefighters in educational sessions at local fire departments.
At each session, firefighters will view a live demonstration of the new decontamination protocols, and a new educational video (see below), that details the protocols and the risks facing firefighters and have an opportunity to ask state experts any questions they may have.
(The New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control has announced a major initiative to help protect its staff, New York State’s firefighters and their families from the occupational threat of cancer. The initiative is a combination of awareness and education about the cancer threat with actions and policies that reduce the threat. Courtesy of NYS DHSES and YouTube. Posted on Jan 15, 2020.)
Training sessions will ensure firefighters are able to:
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Reduce levels of contamination after firefighting
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Recognize the spread of contamination
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Recognize the signs of cancer
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Understand the importance of annual physicals, and what the health care provider should know about firefighters’ occupational risks
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Learn how to perform post fire gross decontamination
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Learn steps to prevent cross contamination to protect yourself and your family and friends
Additionally, the State Office of Fire Prevention and Control is expanding all firefighting classes and trainings it delivers by now including a section on cancer awareness and prevention education.
New sessions are being scheduled on a rolling basis.
If you are a firefighter and looking for an educational session near you, or would like to host one at your department, view the State Office of Fire Prevention and Control’s training calendar or contact your County’s Fire Coordinator.
“We can decrease the exposure to the dangers we face if we want too,” said
Timothy Boel, Director of the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs (NYSAFC).
“Decontamination is such an easy task to accomplish why would you want to expose yourself, other personnel or your family to the dangers we face in our job to protect others.”
“Take the time, energy and effort to make the job you enjoy and have chosen to do the safest it can be.”
(Firefighters could go months before their fire gear is cleaned and that has some members of the department worried that soot from past fires could be causing health problems. Courtesy of NBC10 Philadelphia.)
NYS DHSES Honored with Multiple Awards in 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards
New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services (NYS DHSES)
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Excellence in Public Safety
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NYS Unmanned Aircraft Systems/Drone Training Program
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The NYS Unmanned Aircraft Systems/Drone Training Program helps to safely and effectively leverage UAS in support of the agency’s mission & includes UAS training courses created to help agencies develop their own UAS programs and train UAS Operators.
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One component of the DHSES UAS Program is series of UAS training courses created to help agencies develop their own UAS programs and train UAS Operators.
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The UAS training programs range from basic awareness level training about UAS operations to advanced operator curriculum involving flying UAS in realistic, tactical scenarios.
New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services (DHSES)
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Best Law Enforcement, Counter Terrorism, Crime Prevention for Federal/State/Local
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NYS Red Team Exercise Program
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The NYS Red Team Exercises (and Counter Terrorism Outreach) are pre-planned, unannounced activities conducted in each of New York’s 16 Counter Terrorism Zones (CTZs) by undercover law enforcement and homeland security personnel, who engage in suspicious activity in an effort to “test” specific infrastructure and business sectors and track if and how the activity is reported.
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Each exercise lasts 3-4 days, and tests 30-40 local organizations chosen based on the current threat environment and intelligence.
(Tactical teams respond to some of the most dangerous and challenging situations faced by law enforcement agencies. See how the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES) supports tactical teams in New York State through targeted grant funding, specialized training, the attainment of SWAT standards and through encouraging regional partnerships. Courtesy of NYS DHSES and YouTube.)
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The goal of the NYS DHSES Red Teams is to evaluate and enhance the effectiveness of New York State’s suspicious activity reporting programs, encourage facility security and target hardening, and promote citizen awareness and information and intelligence sharing.
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Red Teams significantly strengthen statewide partnerships between OCT, law enforcement, communities, and the private sector.
New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services (DHSES)
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Best Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Recovery Solution
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County Emergency Preparedness Assessment (CEPA)
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CEPA is a framework and tool to help State and local stakeholders assess risk, capabilities, and the potential need for support and resources during emergencies or disasters.
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CEPA provides for a standardized and repeatable process to understand capabilities at the County level and identify statewide trends, and a tool to help guide disaster preparedness and response efforts, but it is not intended as a scorecard or ranking system.
New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services (DHSES)
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Best Emergency Response Program for Federal/State or Local
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Swift Water and Flooding Training (SWFT)
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To better train first responders to handle the dangers posed by rescuing victims of flooding and swift water, the number one natural disaster that emergency crews respond to in New York State, the NYS DHSES created the Swift Water and Flood Training (SWFT) facility.
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SWFT is located at the State Preparedness Training Center in Oriskany, NY and the venue gives first responders the opportunity to practice both swift water and flood rescues in a real-life environment.
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The training center features a 3-acre pond, a concrete swift water channel and an urban flood simulator that allows rescue crews to train in flooded street and buildings.
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The SWFT flood simulator has three pumps that can pump out more than 30,000 gallons of water to create a variety of realistic flooding hazards, including rapids, a flooded city street, and drowning or stranded victims.
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Responders can safely train numerous scenarios that would be challenging and dangerous to recreate using actual swift water elements.
(See SWFT in action. The state-of-the-art Swift Water Flood Training center is the only training center of its kind solely dedicated to training New York State’s first responders (fire, law enforcement, and EMS) on the technical skills necessary to perform water rescues in controlled conditions. Courtesy of NYS DHSES and YouTube.)
2019 ‘ASTORS’ Government Excellence Award Recipients Also Include:
Commissioner William J. Bratton
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2019 ‘ASTORS’ Person of the Year
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Extraordinary Leadership in Homeland Security & Public Service
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Commissioner William (Bill) Bratton, one of the world’s most respected and trusted experts on risk and security issues and Executive Chairman of Teneo Risk a global advisory firm, was recognized as the ‘2019 ‘ASTORS’ Person of the Year’ for his Lifetime of Dedication and Extraordinary Leadership in Homeland Security and Public Safety.
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Commission Bratton, delivered an impassioned and compelling keynote address at the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Luncheon, as he walked attendees through 50 years of American policing history, the impacts on the communities, and the evolution of critical communication capabilities in our post 9/11 landscape.
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The Commissioner is widely sought by both national and international news outlets, law enforcement agencies, industry leading Fortune 500 companies and public safety agencies for his insight and vast expertise relating to crime, public safety, counterterrorism, risk mitigation, crisis management, and first responders interoperability (i.e., federal, state and local law enforcement, fire, EMS, health, hospitals) in the event of a critical incident or emergency.
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Over the course of his 46-year career in law enforcement, he instituted progressive change and achieved dramatic decreases in crime while leading six police departments, which includes seven years as Chief of Police for LAPD, and two consecutive terms as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, driving down crime, improving public safety, and working to strengthen community relations while in each post.
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As Executive Chairman of Teneo Risk, Commission Bratton regularly counsels clients on risk identification, prevention, and response, with an emphasis on six key areas which includes: cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, counterterrorism, health advisory, internal threat mitigation, and crisis management.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
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Excellence in Homeland Security
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The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative
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The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day hosted by the DEA and its national, tribal and community partners aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medications.
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In response to the dramatic increase in America’s teens use of vaping devices, the DEA for the first time on Saturday, October 26, 2019 began accept vaping devices and cartridges at all of its drop off locations across the nation.
(Hear directly from Acting DEA Administrator Uttam Dhillon. According to the CDC, almost 400,000 Americans died from prescription and illicit opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2017. In 2017, more than 2.1 million Americans were addicted to opioids. Courtesy of CBS This Morning and YouTube. Posted on Oct 22, 2019.)
John F. Clark, CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
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Excellence in Public Safety
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Mr. John F. Clark was with the United States Marshals Service (USMS) for 28 years, serving as head of the USMS from 2006-2011.
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Prior to the USMS, Mr. Clark served with the United States Capitol Police and United States Border Patrol.
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He has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) since 2015, where he has led a complete transformation of the organization.
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NCMEC is unique as an non-profit organization in that it has certain Congressionally established mandates such as the CyberTipLine, which is the nation’s 9-1-1 reporting mechanism for reporting potential child exploitation, child pornography and missing children.
(Hear from John Clark, president and the CEO of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, on Operation Cross Country X, and the importance of working together to fight child exploitation and sex trafficking. Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and YouTube.)
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Excellence in Public Safety
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Fugitive Task Forces
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The U.S. Marshals Service currently leads 60 Regional fugitive task forces which combine the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to locate and apprehend the most dangerous fugitives and assist in high profile investigations.
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(See a brief introduction to the United States Marshals Service narrated by John Walsh from America’s Most Wanted. Courtesy of Shane T. McCoy and YouTube.)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate
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Excellence in Public Safety
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Next Generation First Responder (NGFR) Program
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The Next Generation First Responder (NGFR) Program works with first responders across the country to ensure the technology they use while responding to an emergency keeps them better protected, connected and fully aware.
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These cutting-edge technologies will improve emergency response time and accelerate decision-making to save more lives.
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NGFR is comprised of more than 40 research and development projects geared towards making responders better protected, connected and fully aware.
(The DHS S&T Next Generation First Responder (NGFR) Program recently partnered with public safety agencies from the City of Birmingham and Jefferson County, Alabama, for the NGFR Birmingham Shaken Fury Operational Experimentation (OpEx). The OpEx assessed first responder technologies that addressed the region’s public safety capability gaps to help ready agencies for the World Games 2021 and unexpected natural disasters. Courtesy of DHS S&T and YouTube. Posted on Oct 24, 2019.)
Federal Protective Service in Collaboration with the Argonne National Laboratory
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Best Big Data Analytics Solution
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Federal Protective Service Threat Assessment Report
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The Federal Protective Service Threat Assessment Report (TAR) is an automated, human-in-the-loop, machine learning (ML) new threat and vulnerability assessment framework that has significant, long-term impact for FPS and the greater national security community.
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The new process uses hundreds of data points, including facility-specific information; historical threat-incident data; and external, open-source data (e.g., census and income information) for a data inform set of over 250 factors which guide the determination of a federal facility’s most likely threats.
Dean C. Alexander
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Excellence in Homeland Security
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Mr. Dean Alexander is the Director, Homeland Security Research Program & Professor at Western Illinois University.
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Mr. Alexander is a regular guest contributor to American Security Today.
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Prof. Alexander’s teaching, research, and speaking activities encompass terrorism, security, and legal issues.
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He has lectured in ten countries, including to law enforcement and military officials at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), U.S. State Department, and National Intelligence University events.
United States Postal Inspection Service
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Excellence in Homeland Security
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Office of Investigations
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The United States Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service with jurisdiction of “crimes that may adversely affect or fraudulently use the U.S. Mail, the postal system or postal employees.”
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Their mission is to support and protect the U.S. Postal Service, its employees, infrastructure, and customers by enforcing the laws that defend the nation’s mail system from illegal or dangerous use.
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To protect the mail and to maintain the integrity of postal processes and personnel, the Postal Service relies on the investigative efforts of OIG special agents.
(The Postal Inspectors, Postal Police and Professional, Technical and Administrative staff of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service work hard every day to protect the mail. Hear from them how they do it. Courtesy of the U. S. Postal Inspection Service and YouTube. Posted on Oct 15, 2019.)
DHS S&T National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL)
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Excellence in Public Safety
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Responder RAD Preparedness
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Responder RAD Preparedness – DHS Science and Technology Directorate, National Urban Security Technology Laboratory, in partnership with FEMA & the Department of Energy, & National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) provides guidance and exercises for first responders and emergency managers on how to plan for the first minutes of an radiological dispersal device, or “dirty bomb,” detonation.
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A radiological dispersal device (RDD), or ‘dirty bomb,’ detonation in a local jurisdiction will have significant consequences for public safety, responder health and critical infrastructure operations.
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First responders and emergency managers must quickly assess the hazard, issue protective action recommendations, triage and treat the injured, and secure the scene in support of the individuals, families and businesses in the impacted community.
(S&T’s National Urban Security Technology Laboratory collaborated with first responders, DOE, and FEMA to publish the “Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD) Response Guidance: Planning for the First 100 Minutes.” Courtesy of DHS S&T and YouTube. Posted on Apr 1, 2019.)
DHS S&T Office of Mission and Capability Support
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Excellence in Public Safety
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The FOVEA (Forensic Video Exploitation and Analysis) Tool Suite
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The FOVEA (Forensic Video Exploitation and Analysis) Tool Suite is an add-on suite of analytic tools for the forensic review of video in large-scale surveillance systems, developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory under the DHS S&T Office of Mission and Capability Support (MCS) Surface Transportation Explosive Threat Detection (STETD) Program for Complex investigations.
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Surface transportation such as subway systems can be a unique security challenge due to the large crowds of travelers and the open, unstructured environment.
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S&T is developing technology to detect potential threat items on persons and in bags without negatively impacting the speed of travel – to solve the complex challenge of protecting subways and rail systems from attacks.
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The FOVEA tool allows public safety agencies to speed up the process of reviewing and analyzing security footage in the aftermath of an attack or during an event of interest by creating a summarized video that can be hundreds of times shorter than the original video, well beyond what can be observed via fast forward.
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A path reconstruction tool guides the operator to the next relevant camera view, allowing the operator to quickly follow a person through many cameras and assemble a composite video of the activity, and a prototype of this tool has been deployed to two mass transit facilities and integrated into their video management systems.
Grant Coffey
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Excellence in Public Safety
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Portland Fire & Rescue Hazmat Team Coordinator (Ret), CBRNE Industry Expert, Guest Author and FLIR Systems Brand Ambassador
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With over 37 years in the Fire/Hazmat Industry, Mr. Coffey is focused on using his skills and experience to train and educate first responders and hazmat professionals.
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As Director of Tribute to Honor, Mr. Coffey says he is dedicated to “Helping Those That Helped Us” – responder, military heroes, and their families.
(How often do you expose your equipment to hazardous conditions on the job? And can you claim to have never dropped an expensive tool? In FLIR PRIMED episode 36, Grant Coffey explains important rugged features your equipment should have, and how these features are rated according to international standards. Courtesy of FLIR Systems and YouTube.
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FLIR PRIMED (Prepare, Recognize, Input, Monitor, Experience, Decision) Online CBRNE Training Video Series by FLIR Systems was recognized in the 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program.
Sheriff Tom Knight, Sarasota County Sheriff (FL)
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Excellence in Public Safety
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Sheriff Tom Knight
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Sheriff Tom Knight, the 10th Sheriff of Sarasota County, has served since January 6, 2009, following a 20 year career with the Florida Highway Patrol.
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He has demonstrated a lifetime of devotion to public safety and protecting children from abuse and exploitation, most recently with Operation Intercept VI a 4-day initiative focused on protecting Sarasota County children from online predators and human trafficking which resulted in the arrest of 25 child predators.
(Suspects ranging in age from 19-65 responded to Internet-based ads, online apps and social media sites to engage in sexually explicit written and verbal conversations. One of the suspects rode a three-wheel bicycle to the home while in possession of cocaine and another brought with him two firearms and several narcotics. One man attempted to lure the child into his vehicle while several sent explicit photos and brought condoms with them. Ultimately all 25 arrestees traveled with the intent of having sex with a male or female child. Courtesy of the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office and YouTube. Posted on Jul 26, 2019.)
Dr. Sean Lawler
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Excellence in Homeland Security
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Supervisory Special Agent
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Dr. Sean Lawler is a Supervisory Special Agent with the US Drug Enforcement Administration. SSA Lawler was previously assigned to work international narcotics investigations in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area and he currently is assigned as the Aviation Division’s Training Officer/Chief Instructor Pilot.
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Additionally, SSA Lawler serves as a DEA Primary Firearms Instructor, Tactical Instructor, Tactical Emergency Medical Technician, and Active Shooter Instructor.
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Prior to joining DEA, SSA Lawler was a Major in the US Air Force, where he served as an Instructor Pilot, Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Case Officer, and Combat Interrogator.
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The Aviation Division’s mission is to provide aviation support to operational and intelligence elements within DEA and the law enforcement community to detect, locate, identify, and assess illicit narcotics-related trafficking activities.
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Aviation support is critical to DEA’s strategic goal of disrupting and dismantling drug trafficking organizations that have a significant impact on America’s illegal drug availability.
United States Border Patrol
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Excellence in Homeland Security
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Border Patrol, Search, Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR)
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The Border Patrol, Search, Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR) Unit is a specialized unit of the United States Border Patrol trained in emergency search and rescue & primarily assists injured or stranded migrants who enter the United States illegally from Mexico at remote desert locations.
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(John Welter, a Border Patrol agent in the San Diego sector, explains how a little-known team called the Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit, or BORSTAR, has largely gone under the radar. Courtesy of The Daily Signal and YouTube.)
Dr. Konstantinos Papazoglou and Dr. Daniel M. Blumberg
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Excellence in Scientific Research
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Co Authors of ‘Power: Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience’
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‘Power: Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience’ collectively presents the numerous psychic wounds experienced by peace officers in the line of duty, including compassion fatigue, moral injury, PTSD, operational stress injury, organizational and operational stress, and loss.
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Drs. Papazoglou, a Postdoctoral Scholar, Yale School of Medicine Affiliated Researcher, Teachers College – Columbia University of New York, and Blumberg, a licensed clinical psychologist who has spent the past 33 years providing all facets of clinical and consulting psychological services to numerous local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, describe the negative repercussions of these psychic wounds in law enforcement decision-making, job performance, job satisfaction, and families.
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The book encompasses evidence-based strategies to assist law enforcement agencies in developing policy programs to promote wellness for their personnel.
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The evidence-based techniques presented allow officers to get a more tangible and better understanding of the techniques so that they apply those techniques when on and off-duty.
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The book is an excellent resource for police professionals, police wellness coordinators, early career researchers, mental health professionals who provide services to law enforcement officers and their families, and graduate students in psychology, forensic psychology, and criminal justice.
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Police
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Excellence in Public Safety
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The Port Authority Police Department (PAPD), protects and to enforces laws at PANYNJ facilities including airports, seaports, and bridges and tunnels, plus three bus terminals, the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, and the PATH train system.
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The PAPD is the largest transit-related police force in the United States.
(Media Relation’s Rudy King photographs a recent training climb by the ESU up the George Washington Bridge and interviews a member of the elite squad afterward.. Courtesy of New York City Department of Correction and YouTube.)
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
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Excellence in Public Safety
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The CyberTipLine
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The NCMEC congressionally mandated CyberTipline is a reporting mechanism for cases of child sexual exploitation including child pornography, online enticement of children for sex acts, molestation of children outside the family, sex tourism of children, child victims of prostitution, and unsolicited obscene material sent to a child available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
(After over 20 years in operation, the NCMEC CyberTipline has received more than 45.2 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation – more than half of those in just the last two years. Recognizing this explosive growth, Congress unanimously passed, and the president signed, a new law to streamline the CyberTipline process and tackle new trends we’re seeing in child sexual exploitation. Courtesy of NCMEC and YouTube. Posted on Jan 23, 2019.)
United States Marine Corps
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Best Cyber Security Program for Government or Military
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U.S. Marine Corps 1700 Cyberspace Operations
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The U.S. Marine Corps 1700 Cyberspace Operations Occupational Field cyberspace workforce works to compete successfully on future battlefields & adapt to the rising threat of near-peer adversaries like Russia and China.
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Additionally, these positions support “the maturation of the Marine Corps’ cyberspace workforce through the establishment of specific career paths, standardized training continuum, and mechanisms to retain trained and qualified Marines within the cyberspace community.”
(See how the new 17XX military occupational speciality is revolutionizing how we do cyber security. Courtesy of the Marines and YouTube.)
Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA)
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Excellence in Homeland Security
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Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA) is being recognized for his work on aviation security H.R. 91– Saracini Enhanced Aviation Safety Act of 2019 which would require the installation of secondary cockpit barriers on existing aircraft, and for other purposes.
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Fitzpatrick is a former Special Assistant United States Attorney and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) supervisory special agent in California.
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At the FBI, he served as a national supervisor for the Bureau’s Public Corruption Unit, and led the agency’s Campaign Finance and Election Crimes Enforcement program.
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During his time in the FBI, he spent time in Kiev, Ukraine, Mosul, Iraq and Washington, D.C. He was embedded with U.S. Special Forces as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
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Excellence in Public Safety
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Federal Risk Management Process Training Program
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The Federal Risk Management Process Training Program is Interagency Security Committee certified for Facility Security Officials, Federal Security Supervisors and those involved with Federal facility acquisition, construction, and renovation projects.
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On October 19, 1995, six months after the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, President Clinton issued Executive Order 12977, creating the Interagency Security Committee (ISC) to address continuing government-wide security for federal facilities.
Prior to 1995, minimum physical security standards did not exist for nonmilitary federally owned or leased facilities.
Ewart Williams
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Excellence in Homeland Security
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Mr. Williams is an Adjunct Professor for New Jersey City University tailoring courses and mentoring the next generation of National Security and Intelligence professionals.
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The NJCU Professional Security Studies Department has been designated by the National Security Agency (NSA) as a National Center of Academic Excellence.
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The National Security Agency’s program goal is to “reduce vulnerability in our national information infrastructure by promoting higher education and research in Information Assurance (IA) and producing a growing number of professionals with IA expertise in various disciplines. Certification… assure(s) the very finest preparation of professionals entrusted with securing our critical information.”
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Mr. Williams works in this framework teaching courses in National Security and Intelligence Programs.
Stanley I. White
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Excellence in Homeland Security
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International Association for Counterrorism & Security Professionals (IACSP)
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As Counterintelligence Advisor Mr. Stanley I. White collects intelligence (OSINT, HUMINT and other available sources) and analyzes the subject information using SWOT techniques.
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His skillset also includes basic Israeli Security methodologies, counter elicitation, anti-surveillance, personal awareness, Keysource Intelligence collection as well as holding certifications as a Protection Specialist, Behavioral Detection and Anti-Terrorism Officer.
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He is also internationally published over the last 18 years on the topics of personal protection/security, intelligence, counterintelligence, hand to hand combat and defensive tactics.
To View the Complete List of 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winners, please visit: https://americansecuritytoday.com/ast-names-2019-astors-homeland-security-awards-winners-at-the-javits-center-in-nyc/.
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The office advances public safety through firefighter training, education, fire prevention, investigative, special operations and technical rescue programs.
The delivery of these essential services enables the office to make significant contributions to the safety of all of New York State.
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