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Full-Text Articles in Defense and Security Studies
Achieving Community Preparedness Post-Katrina, Christine G. Springer
Achieving Community Preparedness Post-Katrina, Christine G. Springer
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications
Improving disaster response capabilities within this country requires better coordination not only within the Department of Homeland Security, but also across the federal government as well as with state and local governments, private and non-profit sectors. To do so, according to more than 150 state and local stakeholders that I surveyed in April, 2009 and again in April, 2010, requires that FEMA improve its capacity to fully support state, local and tribal stakeholders … that it improve its internal business practices so as to better implement federal policies and guidance…that it find a way to use thematic goals and transition …
City Of Las Vegas Detention And Enforcement Accreditation Evaluation Program, Daniel Bennett
City Of Las Vegas Detention And Enforcement Accreditation Evaluation Program, Daniel Bennett
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The City of Las Vegas, Detention and Enforcement is a law enforcement organization that is significantly unique in its mission and organization. On March 15, 1982, the City of Las Vegas determined that, due to extreme overcrowding at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Departments holding facility, it was time to create the Las Vegas Department of Detention and Correctional Services. As the population of Las Vegas continued to grow, the Las Vegas Department of Detention and Correctional Services also increased in both size and degree of responsibilities. In 1986, the Las Vegas Park Rangers were absorbed and became the law …
Emergency Managers As Change Agents, Christine G. Springer
Emergency Managers As Change Agents, Christine G. Springer
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications
Since 2001, FEMA and others have been defining and refining competencies for emergency management professionals. In so doing, they have addressed directly and indirectly the qualities of leaders. We know that leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex relationship between people, based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good. We also know that transformational or change-based leadership has become an organizational necessity given the fact that emergency management as a profession is just now coming into its own and emergency management jobs are not traditional in terms of the how, …