CH 5 - Command & Control Flashcards
What is the definition of Control and its main objectives?
What is not included?
- Control operates horizontally across agencies:
- Coordinating / directing the response
- Sets Priorities & Objectives
- Determines how best to impliment them
- Assigns task to other agencies & coordinate other agencies wider actions
Does not include
- Ownership, administrative responsibility or the management of another agency’s resources
What is the definition of Command and its main objectives?
- Command operates vertically within an agencies:
- describes the internal ownership
- administrative responsibility and
- detailed direction of an agencies personnel and resources
What are the three essential elements of control and command?
Clue: L C D
- Leadership,
- control
- decision-making
What are the five (5) response levels of CIMS?
- National
- Regional
- Local
- Incident
- Communtiy
Control & Command
define the following principle:
What?
- Lea
- Co
- Eff/D/M
- Beh L/E
- Prev/V /F
WHAT =
- Leadership
- Coordination
- Effectice decision making
- Behaving lawfully/ethically &
- Prevention/victim focused
What are the eight (8) recognised levels of control and command?
Clue: P- St- N -R -L -I -FC - C (8)
- Political -Government
- Strategic -Commissioner, Agency Chiefs, etc
- National -agency coordination centres, HQs, etc
- Regional -Regional agency offices
- Local -execution phase
- Incident -forward command, incident control
- Forward Commander
- Community
What is the principle in regards to subject matter experts?
Involve SMEs early!
What is the role of chief of staff in a major critical incident?
deal with day-to-day running of the op Staff planning process development of course of action (thus freeing the Operations Contoller/Commander to deal with political and media pressures and focus on strategic resolution)
What is the New Zealand police critical incident appreciation process?
Clue:
- Ai
- Fact
- Cou of Ac
- Outl Pl
AFCO
- Aim
- Factors
- Courses of action
- Plan (outline)
What are factors?
Clue: C Fa In (3)
- Circumstances,
- facts,
- influences (that might contribute to the conduct of the operation)
What factors should be considered in a critical incident operation?
(14)
- Ground,
- time and space,
- weather and environment
- risks
- legislation
- budget
- media
- political considerations
- police role
- log
- health and safety
- intelligence
- community impact assessment
- offenders.
What information should an Outline Plan for a critical incident operation cover?
Clue: S M E
- Situation and background
- Mission similar to the aim
- Execution what’s to be done, when, how, where, who by
What two major coordination and response operations will the NCCC generally take resposibility for?
Clue (2)
- Significant national/international operations
- operations involving two or more Police districts
What are the principles of Operation Orders?
(5)
- Written and record
- kept Clear and simple
- accurate as possible
- Capable of being executed
- sufficient time given
What are the various types of operation orders?
(5)
- operation instructions -for preparing the Ops order
- Warning orders giving preliminary notice of ops order
- operation orders using SMEAC
- movement orders when staff are moved
- administrative instructions -entirely Administrative
Explain GSMEAC?
- Ground and terrain
- Situation what is going on
- Mission very clear and concise
- Execution how mission achieved
- Admin and logistics
- Command and signals
- Appendices
- Briefings
- Debriefs
- Lessons Learnt
- Orders Group
Police uses the Coordinated Incident Management System (CIMS) as its control and command model for the following reasons
Clue: explain why (7)
- A model of command, control and coordination
- consistent / required in any interagency response in NZ
- understood / practised by our multi agency partners
- consistent with command, control and coordination SOPs already in place (to national level)
- It provides a platform for inter-operability with Australian Police jurisdictions (based on the ANZPAA model)
- It is already known at all levels of Police and is the operating norm for front line (response) staff at emergency incidents
- It does not require Police to learn and practice two models of command, control and coordination; nor alternate between the two in a rising tide event that develops in such a way that it requires a multi agency response.
The Police Control and Command System will be utilised in a variety of environments including
(6)
- Business as usual
- Rising tide incidents
- Critical incidents
- Major critical events
- Planned operations
- Spontaneous operations
Control & Command
Define the principle:
WHY?
The ability to effectively:
- Cont
- Com
- Lea
- Coo /Op
WHY =
- The ability to effectively control, command, lead, and Coordinate Police led operations is fundamental to policing in New Zealand
Control & Command
Define the principle:
HOW?
HOW = Police will:
- Ensure all police employees are aware of health & safety considerations
- Adhere to scope of C&C, its functions & environments it is used in
- Familiarise themselves with the principles of Control and Command
- Ensure staff understand the Control and Command roles and responsibilities
- Use a Critical Incident Appreciation Process (e.g. AFCO: Aim, Factors, Courses of action, Outline of plan) to support any incident
- Familiarise themselves with National Command and Coordination Centre’s purpose and Emergency Management Platform of support (RIOD: Real-time Intelligence for Operational Deployment)
Control & Command
Define TENR
- Threat
- Exposure
- Necessity
- Any Response
Command
Command is “The authority that a Commander in the New Zealand Police lawfully exercises over assigned staff by virtue of rank or assignment. Command includes the authority and accountability for effectively using available resources and for?
- Pla
- Org
- Dir
- Co
- Com/Wel/disc/Mor/Ass
- planning
- organising
- directing
- coordinating and controlling Police resources to achieve the accomplishment of assigned tasks
- Command also includes responsibility for the welfare, morale and discipline of assigned staff
Principles of Control and Command
Define the principle of UNITY:
- One Control or Command structure or control and command authority at any one time.
- The Controller/Commander is responsible for the successful outcome of the operation and has the authority to control all Police and other agency resources committed to the operation.
- As well as overall control and command, this principle also relates to task or phase specific parts of an operation, including delegated authority.
- Clear chain of control or command. All units in the chain of control or command must be aware of their immediate superiors, subordinates and inter-agency counterparts.
Principles of Control and Command
Define the principle SPAN:
What is the internationally recommended number of direct reports a controller or commander should have?
Depending on the complexity of the incident 2 -7
