Unified Anti-Terrorism Plan

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In the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, The Department of Homeland Security was created to deal with terrorism threats to national security. The Anti-Terrorism plan brought forth by the department of Homeland security is split into 9 main components. A brief overview of each components is discussed. Finally the plan is looked at as a whole, evaluating how well each component leads to a unified anti-terrorism plan. Assignment 3 September 11, 2001, the worst terrorist attack on US soil to date, killing thousands of people, rocketed the nation. This led to the formation of the Department of Homeland Security. While the department of Homeland Security has many responsibilities, one of its primary roles is preventing acts of …show more content…

The Department of Homeland Security provides biological security through bio preparedness and rapid response to biological attacks. Keeping up to date with current and future biological threats through studies and tests, the department of homeland security keeps constant surveillance on potential biological concerns. All this information, including proper countermeasures to pressing biological concerns, is shared with state and local law enforcement. Prepared through a series of biodefence drills, they will assist with preventing or controlling biological attacks within their jurisdiction. Using forensics, attackers can be quickly identified and stopped before they can do more harm (www.dhs.gov, …show more content…

Each component of their anti-terrorism plan deals heavily in providing information on each component to the proper authorities who will work directly on preventing terrorist attacks and responding to attacks that do get through. The National Terrorism Advisory System replaced the weak and ridiculed color system HSAS (Sharp, 2013.) The department of homeland security warns and works with businesses to prepare anti-terrorism plans, threats against this sector could hurt the economy or provide an outlet for terrorism related activities (Kahan, 2015.) Local law enforcement will be key in helping prevent and manage terrorist threats (Thacher, 2005.) The Department of Homeland Security’s anti-terrorism plan provides a lot of information and assistance to local law

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