GOHSEP Elected_Officials_Manual_2015

GOHSEP
Louisiana Elected Officials
Emergency Management Manual
Prepare + Prevent + Respond + Recover + mitigate
2.4 Interoperability
The National Strategy for Homeland Security and the Louisiana Homeland Security Strategy
identify emergency preparedness and response as critical missions. A major initiative in
both strategies is to enable seamless communication among all responders to an event or
emergency and to improve information sharing and systems.
INTEROPERABILITY
PLANNING
To improve public safety communications
in Louisiana both during a crisis and on a
daily basis, the Statewide Interoperability
Executive Committee (SIEC) developed
the Louisiana Statewide Communications
Interoperability Plan (Plan) and continues to
update it annually.
The Plan outlines a clear mission and
specific goals to achieve statewide public
safety communications and interoperability.
It envisions infrastructure, governance,
standard operating procedures,
technology, training and exercises to
support a statewide communications
system. The system is to be accessible
to all State and local first responders
with capacity and capability to transmit
emergency communications across the
spectrum from daily usage to a surge during
an unknown catastrophic event.
SIEC
The SIEC is comprised of:
• Representatives from each of
the nine (9) GOHSEP Regions in
Louisiana.
• Key State agencies.
• Representatives from all first
responder disciplines.
The Plan receives input from:
• Local + Tribal authorities.
• State agencies.
For more on the SIEC, turn to the Specially
Created Subcommittees section earlier in
this Manual.
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