Law Enforcement / Security Team's Action Guide

Actions (as appropriate and practical):

• Being the first responder at the scene assume the role of IC until relieved, following the appropriate Incident Commander's action guide:
  • General on-scene response to a radiological emergency or
  • Response to lost or stolen potentially dangerous source
• Operate under the IC and follow personnel protection guidelines

• Establish / maintain a security perimeter (outer cordoned area boundary)
• Treat scene as a crime scene until proven otherwise in cooperation with other response personnel (do not interfere with life saving operations)
• Secure response facilities outside the outer cordoned area to include:
  • Incident Command Post
  • Staging area
  • Public Information Centre
• For a security event:
  • Check for suspects, terrorists, booby traps and/or devices
  • Provide protection/security for responders interacting with the public:
    • within public registration, triage/first aid and monitoring/decontamination areas
    • at receiving hospitals and during medical transport
  • Search for weapons before registration, monitoring, decontamination, transport
• Consistent with public protection take action to:
  • preserve evidence and identify or apprehend possible people involved or suspects
  • prevent possible criminal acts at the scene (e.g. theft, destruction of documents)
• Confirm that law enforcement personnel know:
  • that the risk from a contaminated person is negligible if they follow personnel protection guidelines
  • how to take practical actions to limit the spread of contamination — but do not allow this to interfere with response actions
  • that actions to limit the spread of contamination should not interfere with life saving actions.
• Inform organizations receiving contaminated people (e.g. local jail) to follow personnel protection guidelines
• Register each person involved as appropriate using a registration form
• In cooperation with the local hospital and emergency medical service, cordon the area around the local hospital(s) to redirect self presenters (worried-well) to the secondary location established by the resource coordinator for monitoring/reassurance
• Maintain continuity and integrity of all evidence taken from the scene
• Provide information to the PIO on the status of the response
• Direct media inquires to the PIO
• Gather and provide security information for the IC
• Assess needs and request additional resources