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Chapter 17
Prevention Activities
17–1. Prevention concept
a. Overview. Prevention activities are designed to avoid an incident or to intervene to stop an incident from
occurring. Prevention involves actions to protect lives and property. It involves applying information to a range of
activities that may include such countermeasures as deterrence operations; heightened inspections; improved surveillance
and security operations; investigations to determine the full nature and source of the threat; public health and
agricultural surveillance and testing processes; immunizations, isolation, or quarantine; and, as appropriate, specific law
enforcement operations aimed at deterring, preempting, interdicting, or disrupting illegal activity and apprehending
potential perpetrators and bringing them to justice. Within the Army, prevention activities are led by the installation
Provost Marshal, the AT Program, the Information Assurance Program, and, for FHP issues, the U.S. Army Medical
Command (MEDCOM).
b. Coordination. The task presented to installation emergency managers is the coordination of these efforts into an
integrated strategy to ensure effective coordination of effort and resources. Examples of prevention activities include
the following:
AT Program, law enforcement, and physical security prevention activities as described in references AR 525–13 and
AR 190–13 to include crime prevention, terrorism prevention, surveillance detection, counter-surveillance, and
community policing.
MTF (or hospital) prevention activities such as vaccinations, immunizations, syndromic surveillance, vector control,
and preventive health procedures.
Fire and emergency services prevention activities such as fire investigation and fire safety education.
Information technology prevention activities such as Information Assurance and user training efforts.
17–2. Prevention strategy
The installation EMWG shall develop and promulgate an installation prevention strategy to reduce the human causes
and consequences of identified hazards in close coordination with the installation ATWG, information assurance (IA)
staff, and the MTF commander. The installation EMWG shall coordinate with the existing installation ATWG and the
MTF commander to ensure that the comprehensive, integrated prevention goals are addressed in existing plans and
procedures. The best practice is to identify a prevention committee of select members of the installation EMWG and
installation ATWG to perform this function.
17–3. Prevention planning
Prevention planning is conducted by the installation ATWG and the supporting MTF commander. Prevention plans,
such as the installation AT plan, installation physical security plan, IA Plan, and associated medical response plans,
shall describe the prevention strategies associated with hazards identified during the risk management process described
in chapter 5. Prevention plans shall also consider prevention opportunities during the recovery phase, when hazard
awareness is high and funds may become available, for the redesign and/or relocation of facilities and infrastructure.
17–4. Antiterrorism Program
a. Requirement. Each installation ATWG is highly encouraged to include the installation emergency manager as a
designated core member of the working group.
b. Issues. Key areas of concern regarding all-hazards prevention activities should be identified through the processes
identified in chapters 4 and 5. These areas include the following:
Jurisdictional boundaries and associated restrictions.
Integration of AT risk management process, results, and products into all-hazards risk management process.
MEVA identification process.
Alignment and coordination with FPCON levels.
Access control procedures and requirements.
Support agreements with other DOD installations and local civil jurisdictions.
Terrorist incident response procedures.
Resource management coordination.
Existing additional duty manpower assignments in support of AT and physical security requirements (resource
management issue).
Evacuation management and mass care security requirement.
Resource typing process.
Integration of technology and data systems, to include security cameras, alarm systems, and detection systems across
all-hazards and in support of installation dispatch center and installation EOC requirements.
EM program support of Standard 20 and 21 requirements of DODI 2000.16.
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