Essays on Security Department

Terrorism is a worldwide threat that does not recognize the borders, and that affect people and states irrespective of the geographical locations. Individual as well as groups believe advancing their political aims by the use of terror and pose a serious threat to their country democratic values and the freedom and rights of the citizen mainly by targeting the innocent people (Noflsinger, Newbold & Wheeler, 2007). The acts of terrorism are unjustifiable and criminal thus must be treated as such under all the circumstances. However, there are strategies to combat terrorism activities globally and respect human rights. The first strategy ...

An internship with Abu Dhabi Airport entitled Abu Dhabi Airport Internship report completed in partial fulfilment of the requirements for CEHS 396-Internship in Homeland Security

Abstract

This report offers the description of my internship at the Abu Dhabi Airport Company (ADAC) in the United Arabs Emirates. Fundamentally, Abu Dhabi Airport is a public joint-stock organization that is fully owned by the Abu Dhabi government. It is located 16.5 nautical miles east of the Abu Dhabi City, which is the second largest city within the United Arab Emirates. My primary duties and responsibilities as an intern were to understand about the ...

The standard operating procedure for security department has been prepared to provide a response framework to different emergencies at the Phillips 66 Company. The purpose of reporting Crisis Management (CM) Notifications is to ensure that the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) is aware of crisis incidents and potential impacts to the company. It delivers complete information about standard operating procedure of security department of the company. It identifies the strengths of ELT and shows the team’s approaches and capabilities to control the security system effectively.

Procedure

The team has created efficient plans to take immediate actions against any emergency situation ...

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. started its existence with the sale of Boeing Commercial Airplanes to investment firm Onex. Providing a tier essential parts for aircraft, the company has built a strong management policy to govern such a huge corporation. The board of directors is a main key governance instrument of the company. Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. has a chairman of the Board and president. Another person may be appointed as a director, president and Chief Executive Officer to perform the main responsibilities that a director has. Since 2013, this position is held by Larry A. Lawson. There is also an independent ...

The world faces varied security threats that affect the operations of various sectors of the economy. These threats range from terrorist attacks to cybercrimes. To curb these threats, different countries have created independent units to deal with the threats. In the United States, the department of homeland security (DHS) has the mandate to ensure that America is safe from certain threats. The department has laid down interventions to ensure the achievement of their objectives. However, these interventions when applied singularly are always ineffective. When the interventions are integrated, they assist in the achievement of goals of the department. The ...

African Americans have suffered from police brutality in the United States since time in memorial. It is disheartening to see unarmed African Americans suffer in the hands of white police with many either sustaining serious unimaginable injuries or even in extreme cases losing their lives. It is quite unclear how racial discrimination continues to haunt even the new century with more fatalities recorded in the civilized era where governments have enacted policies to protect each person from all sort of discrimination. Police brutality is and has been an increasingly notorious act of discrimination of the colored skin people, mostly ...

Qestion1: Acceptable standards and accountability measures in emergency and crisis management.

Goal setting is a mandatory approach to any organization that aims at achieving set standards and quality for customer satisfaction (Walle, Murray & Starr 16). In most circumstances, the set goals should be realistic. This will help give direction to any agency or firm. In the case of eventualities, there should be a reflection to identify the achieved goals and the ones pending. This move will give a benchmark to every individual in the firm. Accountability will be measured at this point in time and evaluate the input by every individual at the time of crisis. A look at achieved ...

Introduction

Occupations safety and health (commonly abbreviated as OSH) is an important aspect of any professional environment. The purpose of this toolkit is ensure that safety, health and welfare requirements of the people, who are employed by the organization, are duly protected. In addition, among the purposes of OSH include the protection of outsiders, customers, the natural environment and other stakeholders, who may be potentially affected by any unforeseen emergencies of a business institution, or by the dangerous production process of its industrial units (Roughton & Mercurio, 2002). The present case focuses on the analysis of occupational security procedures followed by ...

Upholding security is essential to the success of any corporate organization. Lack thereof compromises the overall performance of a firm and could result in mediocre results or complete failure. The recent insecurity concerns on the Walmart store at Daytona Beach have heightened the consumer’s concerns about shopping at that location. As such, there is a need to develop an appropriate intervention mechanism to aid in the minimization of the security threats. Achieving success in this endeavor will heighten not only the number of shoppers at the Walmart store but the overall consumer satisfaction with this outlet.

Definition of the Problem

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Is Comp stat an Effective Accountability Tool for Police Agencies?

Comp stat is a system that reflects on the comparison of computer statistics, and was introduced to enable the police provide accurate and timely information. It displays information gathered during the normal operations in the form of computerized crime data, crime mapping, and crime analysis. Comp stat plays a critical role in controlling both the minor and major crimes in the United States. This technology was first introduced in New York as a tool to empower the police officers to investigate any criminal activities and contain it before economic damage. Through this technology, the security department in New York was able to ...

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Public safety department is the umbrella organization of the government of the United States of America. Public safety department provides technical, economic and administrative services. Public safety departments are state and local. State public safety department act within states. Every state has a public safety department. Local public safety department are acting within cities and towns. There are not many of them, because in small towns they are substituted by local police offices. However, in some states police offices are only divisions of the public safety department. Hence, we see that the interactions between law enforcement agencies and public safety ...

Introduction

Recently, the problem of corporate crime and ethical misconduct had seriously aggravated. More often ethical misconduct and non-compliance occurs in the field of environmental regulation, health care, securities law, and safety regulations. Nowadays whistleblowing is recognized as a tool of detection and prevention of malpractice and corruption. The motivations of whistleblowers are different including protection of human rights, fairly paly, disclosure of malpractices, human safety, and adherence to laws. Thank to whistleblowers, corruption practices are revealed. Meanwhile, whistleblowers often suffer from the disclosures they initiated because disclosure meets with resistance from the side of corrupted structures. Therefore, whistleblowers ...

Homeland security

Terrorism is becoming more complicated than before with the use of mass destruction weapons. Ten years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, policy makers continue to define the homeland security. Prior to 11.09, the United States addressed crises through the separate, law enforcement, prisms of national defence and emergency management. This demands a new strategy for the security enforcers in order to prevent from the threats. Preemption is a measure that ensures terrorists do not plan and attack different places as they chose. Defensive deterrence is no longer an option to prevent attacks, but offensive preemption is needed to counter the ...

Being the world’s biggest economy, the United States security environment is very complex and is full of many competing interests, incentives and requirements that must be effectively require effective management and balancing to ensure the continued achievement of national goals and objectives. The security, safety and resilience of the United States is under constant threat from a wide array of hazards that include terrorism, cybercrime, pandemics, natural disasters transnational crime and manmade accidents. The United States Department of Homeland Security plays a vital role in the management of such varied and complex risks that face the nation on a daily basis. ...

Section 5 Required Written Assignment

Research studies indicate that there have been a number of evolutions in the United States’ Office of Civil Defense since the beginning of the 20th century. These changes have been in an attempt of enhancing the nation’s preparedness towards potential threats, hazards and attacks. Today, all these preparedness programs have been mandated to the Homeland Security Department. By creating new policies, funding a number of programs, and successive administration of these programs, the Homeland has, to some extent, achieved its core goals. The history of the Homeland Security has brought about a number of policy changes. Most of these policy changes ...

Introduction

The International Standard Organization (ISO-27002, 2005), affirms and concurs that in majority of world business enterprises, information security plays a vital role in their overall daily progress. This is because of its ability to defend the enterprise important information from interruption, disclosure, modification and unauthorized access. It also includes physical protection from theft of IT hardware essentials, fire and other catastrophes such as floods. This has helped to keep company instable state through maintenance of its internal structures. Harris (2003) in his Researchshows that online business trend have relatively increased over recent years, this has necessitate many business to ...

- Pre-employment screening - This involve placing of ads in the right sources to get applications from the right candidates Interviewing - Carry out pre-employment tests such as skills, personality traits, and motivations Background checks for address - Verification of education and employment records, criminal activities and references Employee termination steps 2. - Document employee record and relationship from the start by ensuring that employees sign policies and other necessities such as background checks and conduct drug testing procedures Conduct a sincere and accurate evaluation and counseling and document them - Conduct an internal ...

In most of the countries, firearms distribution is regulated by laws which are incorporated in the laws of the land. For example, in the United States, this is done by a number of state laws and federal laws. Several acts have been enacted all aiming at controlling possession, use and situations where a firearm can be carried openly in the public. So as to understand some of these laws quite well, let us consider some laws in the US constitution which regulate gun use and in turn how this affects the crime rates associated with use of firearms or guns. ...

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Introduction Homeland security is a basic right that should be provided by the government to its citizens. This has led to enactment of several clauses in the constitution all aiming at enhancing security of each and every person. Also, from the bills of rights provided to the citizens by the constitution, every citizen is entitled to basic and proper security as a right. This is what has led to enactment of constitutional rights on homeland security. After September 11 attack on the US ...

Proposed change in combating terrorism

In order to combat terrorism effectively, I propose that the Homeland Security Department introduce a new policy of information searching on the travellers into the United States of America. The new system should involve the use of joint information pulling methods that employ the use of data collected from the embassy at the visitor’s home country and incorporated into the system of the United States Homeland Department. This proposal would see to it that the information gathered at the airports on persons arriving into the United States of America is merely corroborative with the substantial work having been done ...

Introduction

Information security is an important part of managing organizations that aims to establish a strong e-commerce presence whether they may be a commercial, government, or not-for-profit organization. In fact, the moment you decided to establish an online presence, that is, making yourself visible to other people who also use the World Wide Web to engage in business and do all sorts of things, you are already required to know the basic rules and principles of information security. Knowing how such principles can be applied to certain situations is also a very important factor in deciding whether you will want to step into the ...

Introduction

This proposal aims at revealing how the sacrificing of our own privacy can secure us against terrorism. Terrorism is an international concern which involves the commission of fatal crimes by citizens of other countries against a country or a group of countries (Saitu & Taylor, 2002).These activities are always driven by some ideology like international heroism or refusal to support an idea international which leads to punitive reaction like in the terrorist activities experienced between the Arab citizens belonging to Taliban movement against America. Focusing on this as the main case study and others this proposal seeks to show ...