I know you got your #blue #light on for #PoliceWeek
HISTORY: In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation which designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as Police Week. Currently, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers from around the world converge on Washington, DC to participate in a number of planned events which honor those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Taking some time today to assess a few new classroom locations.
(And yes, if you were going to ask, this is also their media press briefing room.)
Additionally, the larger classrooms are solid and has plenty of space to do breakout sessions as well as secluded rooms for simulations on policy briefing, partner agencies, etc….
Glad to see they even have a place for their favorite PIO too.
The main EOC is nice and fresh too.
Classes? Training? Large events? Activations? Disasters? All looks good to me. I’m in!
Special thanks to Bob and the crew for the tour. Looking forward to supporting the operations.
Day-2 of ICS-400, so you know we are going to ruin this place…
…and destroy this place…
…and definitely FUBAR this place too!
All in the name of tabletop training for our partners in public safety! (Central City, Liberty County, and the State of Columbia are all fictitious locations. They are NOT real).
If you look closely, you can see our class engaged and smiling too!
Additionally, as instructors, we share lessons learned and success stories in large incidents to better prepare our participants for their own emergency or disaster.
And I know you are going to ask and yes, the ICS claw story went over well.
Rawr.
Glad to have a very active class that is engaged with each other as well as their partner agencies.
Lots of collaboration prior to an emergency. Great to have discussions in peace time. Priorities and goals are important to know – esp BEFORE a disaster or an emergency.
Looking forward to seeing our participants on the next big one!
Starting out another ICS-400: Advanced ICS for Command and General Staff, Complex Incidents, and MACS.
Who’s excited?!?!?
You know I’m excited to be in the EOC.
Aside from the EOC, I also found the Joint Information Center too. #PIO
Right out of the gate, it is imperative that we incorporate realistic scenarios to better position the participants to critically think outside their own lane and collaborate with other agencies and groups to work together in a disaster.
Solid participants of a very diverse group today.
Looking forward to day-2.
One little, two little, three little #Navy boats…
I wonder how rigorous is #SealTeam6 training.
And no, I can’t tell if the 160th is here too.
A quiet Saturday in this media briefing room.
Lots of paperwork to catch up and filing of my TPS reports.
Starting up the G-291: Joint Information Center / Joint Information System course!
As we roll through, today is May 4th. May the Fourth. So here’s an example of press conference and how the JIC can support PIOs.
Maybe C3PO is a field PIO….
Think about that for a second.
C3PO=Human cyborg relations. Yes, C3PO is a PIO. <knowledge bomb> #OMG
After reviewing the course material, we got right into the hands on portion of the class with coordination.
Glad to see so many of the teams working together to put together their classroom press conferences.
Coordination is critical when getting the message to a specific audience.
The lead PIO needs to be able to control and manage the press conference so that all voices are heard.
Seemingly innocuous, the order and formality of a press conference is important and critical to the messaging. Additional coordination with local, county, and state is critical to showcase partnership with all responding agencies.
Fielding questions from reporters like Veronica (played by Erica) is crucial in enhancing the public’s knowledge.
Also, helping PIOs prepare for questions will make for a smoother presser. Sometimes, challenging questions from the gallery make us better PIOs….esp since the questions are based off real situations.
Super proud of all these new PIO peeps.
Congrats on your completion of the State of Indiana Basic Public Information Officer Course and JIC/JIS Course. New PIOS – May the Fourth be with you. Go forth and tweet good stuff.
Starting out Day-2 of the Basic Public Information Officer course.
After a few modules, we dove deep into social media and how we can effectively communicate our message to our peeps. (<—-See what I did there?)
By using different forms of communications and focusing our efforts for our particular audience, we can work smarter not harder.
As for press releases? While the interest has gone down, it’s important to know how other platforms can be used to communicate the same messages – faster and quicker.
The example above is how Erica used 140-characters to replace the standard laborious tedious classic one-page press release.
Detailing the fun stuff on Live broadcast technology, we can share with our participants the excitement and preparedness level needed to do in-field broadcasting. On the opposite end, we can also highlight the dangers and challenges that the intelligence community has to face as they digest and review all the ongoing and very much in real-time, the information being put out to the world on social media.
Challenging but scary time for analysts who live in SOCMINT.
In the class, we encourage people to use social media as it will help them better their skillz (yes, that’s a Z) for use with their tasks.
So imperative that we regularly use the tools that we talk about in class. Practice and proficiency in steady-state operation will lead to smooth operation and perfect execution during crisis or disaster.
As always, we are glad to be a part of the state team to share our knowledge with all attendees.
Tomorrow is more on JIC/JIS action – wohoooooooo!
Where is @rusnivek? 