Active Citizen Community Communication Architecture to Connect Citizens and Augment Responders Cultural Information for Public Safety and Law Enforcement

Active Citizen Concept Data InformationKnowledge Products: Planning Tools Environmental Info Cultural Info Incident Scene Info Whats happeningContextDecision Support All Source Reporting Active Citizen Community Intelligence Coordination Center Public Safety And Law Enforcement

Active Citizen Program Active Citizen Program leverages the eyes and ears of the community to assist law enforcement Main Concept: Community based approach to empowering citizens as partners with law enforcement in the effort to protect their neighborhoods and communities. Issues: *Events of Sept 11 th and subsequent investigations reveal that the terrorists easily integrated into American communities. *Americans are not aware of what indicators to look for. *No program currently exists to educate the American public about things to look for in pre-attack environments *No processes or programs exist to motivate Americans to inform law enforcement officials of suspicious activity. *Most terrorists will infiltrate into ethnically-friendly lower/middle class economic communities. *Most ethnic communities are suspicious of or non- cooperative with law enforcement programs. *Existing community-based programs are not compatible with the terrorist modus operandi. *An Alert and Trained Public is the greatest Deterrent to attacks

Active Citizen Program Active Citizen Program leverages the eyes and ears of the community to assist law enforcement Components: 1. Organizational and Operational Structure *ActCit Coordination Center *Cadre of trained citizen volunteers 2. Reporting Context *Provide citizens with specific information reporting requirements 3. Reporting Infrastructure *Community Communications Bridge *Internet based reporting portal *Does not replace 911! 4. Information Fusion *Validate and Coalesce into Products 5. Dissemination to Law Enforcement Neighborhood ActCit Teams ActCit Coordination Center Coordination Center is not a law enforcement entity

Active Citizen Coordination and All Source Fusion Center PortalPortal Community Communication Infrastructure And Cyber Citizen Corp Portal Environmental Data Cultural Data Specific information Requirement Incident Situation Reporting Damage Assessments Public Safety and Law Enforcement Agencies Cultural Analysis Environmental Risk Mitigation Pattern Recognition GIS Products Specific Information Requirements Communications Grid Augments Field Responders

Cyber Citizen Corps Portal Portal Community Active Citizen Program Active Citizen Neighborhood Teams Products Requirements Operational Area Unified Intelligence Cmd (TEW) Forms Organizational Legs of CIAP E-Team & Counter- terrorism Info Net E-Team & Counter- terrorism Info Net Public Partnership Space Public Agency Field Units Situation Awareness: Community Partnership with Public Safety and Law Enforcement Incident Community Comms Grid As Required Situation awareness

Technologies Cyber Citizen Corps Portal Incident Management GIS Reporting Chat Video Alert and Notification Strong security! Video teleconference Virtual EOC San Diego State University Vis Lab San Diego Community Communications Grid

End State: Collaboration Link between Federal & State Information Centers, local LEA and Community Cyber Citizen Corp Portal Portal National Information Awareness Grid that Emphasizes Local Field Requirements Federal Information Center Local LEA State Information Centers Document Library Archive Imagery Archive Collaboration Tools for Chat and VTC Surveillance Video over TCP/IP Voice over TCP/IP Incident Management Application Real-Time Reporting Report Forms and GIS Mapping Community

Proof of Concept Domestic Emergency Response Information Service (DERIS) March, 2002 Burning Man, August, 2002 Shadow Bowl, January, 2003 Community Communications Augmentation Mass Casualty Medical Reach-Back Vulnerability Analysis and Threat Assessment Concept Indications and Warning/Situation Awareness Concept

Domestic Emergency Response Information Service (DERIS) Demonstrated feasibility of portal based approach for LEA crisis response Implements National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue standards for eXtreme Information Infrastructure (XII) Prototype a common operational picture and provide real-time C2 for Joint Civil- Military Operations LEA from Chicago, San Diego and Los Angeles utilized collaboration portal within context of a potential terrorist attack

Burning Man Event Burning Man Event held annually Spontaneous community of 25,000 people gathering to explore social phenomena Implentation Established robust collaboration network in an austere environment Employed portal tools as primary means for receiving, archiving and disseminating emergency management essential elements of information Over four day period, implemented complex cultural analysis focused on the dynamics of an emergent community Social Structure (caste, tribal, warlord) Religion, Ethnic Groups Evolving Economic Structure and Status Political structure and stability Language and Dialect Reaction to intervening forces Location and identification of key social facilities, etc Implications Terrain and Weather Developed Reach-back technique to interface with San Diego State University Sociology Lab and San Diego Data Processing Centers GIS applications Provided Situation Awareness Products describing community profile in real time Integrated products and tools within 3-D virtual Emergency Operations Center Employ advanced visualization techniques

Shadow Bowl Concept Public Safety Super Bowl Planners Develop Distributed Command Center Concept Concerns As-is Communication Infrastructure didnt support concept WMD attack impact on pre-staged Responders Non-traditional threat warning, Situation Awareness, and Cross Cultural Collaboration gaps Shadow Bowl Addresses Concerns Employed subject matter experts from community to establish a state of the art communications infrastructure to help link command centers Established national medical reach-back architecture and mass casualty triage site Employed chem, bio, radiological, physiological, high resolution optics and acoustic sensors grid. Tied these feeds into an all-source fusion center and disseminated situation reports over multiple collaboration networks Tied together entire regions law enforcement and emergency response agencies into an information awareness network

Shadow Bowl Community Communications Augmentation

Shadow Bowl Medical Reach-back

Shadow Bowl Threat Warning, Situational Awareness and Cross Cultural Collaboration Stadium Sensor Field Fwd Ops Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center All Source Fusion Center Main Ops Center Public Safety And Law Enforcement Field Units Monitored for Potential Threats

SD County EOC SD County Health SD County EMS SD County SO DOC SD County PDs Region 6 LE Riverside County SO San B County SO Imperial County SO LA County TEWG Orange County TEWG Vis Lab Main Vis Lab Fwd Titan Site Mil NRSW Federal DOJ/ODP FAA TSA FEMA Med SMEs Border Patrol Bases CATIC SDPD DTC SDPD EMB (Harbor PD) SDPD Gaslamp SDPD DOC SDPD Juarez SDPD Qualcomm FBI Aero SD City EOC SD FLSS CHP JTTF Sensor Grid VTC Capabilities Supported Activities The inner circle Supporting Activities San Diego Counter Terrorism Info Net (CTIN) Portal

Implementation Monitoring Events SD Sheriff DOC Military COCs SD County EOC City EOC LA TEW CATIC OHS FBI SIOC FEMA CTINCTIN Link to vast Federal, State and Regional Information Resource Support SDPD DOC Shadow Bowl

Pilot Concept: Active Citizen Small Scale Sample Implementation During Pilot Establish Coordination Center Establish Cadre Sample for initial implementation *Link with SDPD Neighborhood Policing Program *Link with Sheriffs Neighborhood Watch Establish Community Communications Architecture *Communication Nodes *Reporting Channels -Portal Train and Exercise Implement