Part II Chapter 6

Responder Template Planning and Dissemination

• Explains the eight subordinate missions' development and dissemination, based on a Regional ASHER Order.
• Interdependent subordinate missions are grouped into three distinct planning groups.
• The responder template gives end users a templated response plan, along with a facility template, customized by each facility and its responders.
• Demonstrates the responder template's dissemination to subordinate authorities using a modified U.S. Army five-paragraph operations order.
• The responder template's target audiences are facility administrators, staff, and first responders relative to each facility's response.
• The purpose is to create cohesion in first responders Active Shooter Hostile Event Response (ASHER) for facilities within a cooperative region
• Creates standards and guidelines, to be finalized at the facility response planning level. Planning teams are facility administrators and first responder agencies assigned to support them.
• Planning entails coordination between groups and institutions within the integrated planning cell.
• Chapter 2 of Part II Operations identifies eight subordinate missions requiring a responder plan.

Subordinate Mission Planning Teams

• Eight sub-mission teams address critical areas like casualty collection, movement to contact, and reunification.
• Teams collaborate and align related submissions.
• Each team is led by a leader and includes regional first responder agencies and emergency management.

Logistical Coordination

• A dedicated logistical coordination group, with representatives from each submission team, manages resource allocation and support.
• Centralized coordination streamlines logistics and ensures efficient resource distribution.

Facility Involvement

• Elements from the facility planning group actively participate, providing input, feedback, and building trust with first responders.
• Fosters understanding and commitment to the plan.

Planning Framework

• The ASHER Regional Order guides overall strategy, tactics, and objectives.
• Sub-mission teams use that guiding framework to develop detailed plans.
• Planning follows a modified U.S. Army five-paragraph operation order format.

Responder Template Outcome

• Responder template offers a standardized, flexible, and effective framework for responding to active shooter incidents, establishing clear roles and responsibilities.
• Facilitates inter-agency coordination and communication.
• Ensures timely resource allocation.
• Enhances safety and security.

Responder Template Planners Review (from Part II, Chapter 2)

• Group One
  • Movement to contact (MTC) is headed by a Law Enforcement Commander.
  • Casualty collection & evacuation (CC&E) is headed by a Fire Commander.
• Group Two
  • Clear & Secure facility (C&S) is headed by a Law Enforcement Commander.
  • Evacuate objective (EVAC OBJ) is headed by a Law Enforcement Commander.
• Group Three
  • Reunification operations (REU OP) is headed by an Emergency Management Manager.
  • Investigations operation (INV OP) is headed by a Law Enforcement Commander.
  • Public information operations (PIO) is headed by an Emergency Management Manager.
  • Recovery operations (RECOV OP) is headed by an Emergency Management Manager.
• Streamlined logistical coordination involves designating one logistics coordinator from each of the eight teams. This group conducts all logistical coordination for all the submission planning teams.

Logistical Coordination Group

• Consists of the eight Logistical Coordinators
• From the MTC Team: Law Enforcement Officer.
• From the CC&E Team: Firefighter.
• From the C&S Team: Law Enforcement Officer.
• From the EVAC OBJ Team: Law Enforcement Officer.
• From the REU OP Team: Emergency Management Officer.
• From the INV OP Team: Law Enforcement Officer.
• From the PIO OP Team: Emergency Management Officer.
• From the RECOV OP Team: Emergency Management Officer.
• Coordinates services and assets like facilities and sites from private, municipal, state, and federal institutions.

Assets And Services Request From

• Private Entities

• Facilities Sites

• Governement Support -Municipal and County including: -Transportation & Public Works -Emergency Management -Social Services

  -State including: -Emergency Management -Social Services

  -Federal including: -Emergency Management -Law Enforcement ( outside the Regional ASHER)

Facilities Group

• Facilities group's participation helps build shared understanding and trust between institutions, which makes all participants shareholders in the planning process.
• A standard regional tactical template plan for each of the eight subordinate missions is achieved.
• Specific agencies are identified in first and second response packages for each facility in the region.
• There is completed planning and logistical coordination.
• A task list exists for facility planning teams.
• Seven of the eight subordinate missions are split into three groups, with reunification as a dedicated chapter.

Planning Categories Followed

• Strategy
• Tactical planning
• Services and logistical support coordination
• Command & control
• Subordinate unit tasking in first and second packages for each facility response plan.
• Planning for flexibility and full-spectrum threat response.

Responder Template Planning Process

• The 8 subordinate missions use the ASHER Regional Order as a guide for their templated plans.
• The end state and key tasks to achieve the end state were identified for each subordinate mission.
• Planners gain an overview of the entire planning process on how they will plan.
• The Regional Order provides the strategy and guidance needed to complete their mission of planning.

Responder Template Planning Suggestions

• Offers suggestions and ideas for addressing planning concerns that are not strict rules.
• The goal is to inspire thinking and problem-solving so that Regional ASHER cooperatives will be develop cohesive standard responder templates for their communities.

Group One Responder Template (Movement to Contact and Casualty Collection & Evacuation)

• The agencies and personnel numbers responding are identified for each of the region's public elementary school's first and second packages of responders.
• Other region facilities and areas within the attendance boundary of an elementary school shares that respective school's responder packages.

Situation Paragraph

• Identifies participating forces and their roles in each facility's Active Shooter Hostile Event Response.
• Includes the number of personnel from agencies in the first and second responder packages for movement to contact, casualty collection & evacuation, clearing and securing the objective, evacuating non-mission-essential personnel, and investigations.
• Conducted by the entire regional planning cooperative.
• The situation paragraph is developed for each elementary facility and is pushed down to all facilities and responders, and is added to the elementary school attendance boundary in the region's facility response plans.
• The two packages of responders are addressed based on the planning information, which is the determining information for the development of the two packages of responders.

Develop a Mission Statement

• It simply states:
  • Who the order is directed to.
  • Where the actions are executed.
  • When or in what circumstances.
  • What actions are to be taken.
  • Why, the purpose for the actions.
  • The mission statement is directed at facilities and responders in the Regional Cooperation that are responding to ongoing acts of violence within the regional ASHER Cooperation.

Mission Statement (Example)

• Security, law enforcement, fire, and commercial emergency medical responders and all law enforcement responders in the vicinity of Region respond to acts of violence (active shooter or CCTA), move to neutralize the threat, establish warm and safety corridors, collect, conduct life-preserving care, and evacuate to an appropriate lifesaving medical facility to prevent further killing and save the lives of the wounded victims on the objective site.

Execution (Commander's Intent Usage in Planning

• Commander's intent is outlined in the Regional Order for each subordinate unit mission.
• The integrated planning team utilizes the intent to understand what success looks like from the eyes of the Regional ASHER commissioner's eyes.
• Each of the three planning groups must develop a strategy to accomplish their mission, achieving the commander's end state per Regional Order.
• Connects the mission statement and commander's intent, and is stated in an outline of how each group of related subordinate missions unfolds in support of each other.

Concept Of Operation

• All first and second package responders must move to objective and medical stations
• Sets the ground rules for which commanders go where when.

Law Enforcement MTC Guidelines

• Law enforcement officers from the first package responders should move directly to the objective and begin MTC operations, park in a way that does not block other assets.
• Employ sole officer response unless arriving in a group, expected to conduct linkup operations, integrate the effort of MTC with facility security forces.
• The first arriving officer assumes incident command and movement to contact commander, and command positions may transition using succession of command instructions.
• The transport of wounded via MTC will be to the medical zones
• As the MTC operation develops, and the commander determines, the flow of officers is ceased, and officers are redirected to the staging area where the flow to MTC effort will be driven by staging management.
• MTC forces are tasked with neutralization, warm zone setting, and safety corridor building and all support functions need to be aware of what those functions are.

Support Actions

• Fire assets from the first responder group move to the medical group and begin medical group operations. The first leader on scene is the medical group commander and assumes incident command from the contact leader. The second leader moves to and sets up incident command operations and assumes command from the medical group commander.
• Commanders from the agency where the attack is occurring will move to the incident command post, create subordinate staff, and establish communications. This includes the first and second packages of responders.

Medical Actions

• The medical group commander will stand up the medical group with triage, treatment, and evacuation stations.
• Law enforcement assets from the first package are requested.
• Prepare to move if the shooter is down, or have a low number of victims.

Contingency Support

• All in the second package staging area will prepare to support follow-on missions requested by the MTC and Medical Group commander.
• The contact mission is the main effort to the point where the threat is neutralized, or the MTC commander advises ICP, at which point the collection and evacuation mission is the main effort.
• Employ police CCE teams where the warm zone is less than stable, fire teams in secure environments, and rescue task force teams where an imminent threat is operating nearby.
• Wounded will be evacuated to the triage station, stabilized at the treatment station, and transported at an evacuation station that transport casualties to their location

Movement To Contact

• End state criteria is marked by on site security, collective response from law enforcement, and fire to neutralize threat.
• Establishing warm zone(s) that encompass casualties, with terrain occupied and safety exits

MTC Key Tasks

• Doctrine must support speed, agility, and violence of action.
• Employ sole officer response with linkup skills to subsequently build small elements.
• Unit doctrine must support speed, agility, and violence of action.
• By employing sole officer responders with linkup skills, and forming small units on the move who operate separately yet in a mutually supporting manner
• Require communication and adopting tactics, techniques, and procedures that allow for this.
• Elements shall use squad tactics
• Maneuver is best suited to be executed through the squad formation because you are already in two separate formations while traveling to find the threat
• Establishes platoon and company commands -Two and three squad configurations to support team work.
• A short span of control allows agility and speed in a force, key ingredients in creating and maintaining momentum
• organizing smaller elements assists because the smaller the group we operate, the quicker and easier the flow of communication between individuals
• Develop methods to establish pockets of warm zones around groupings of wounded, moving stray wounded into the pockets if needed.
• Develop methods to occupy key terrain, and key points there is establishing MTC commander's first responsibility is always neutralization while forces are involved

Main Effort Responsibilities

• First: Neutralization of the threat The army then makes a "Main Effort," which means that personnel and support go to the main effort first when multiple efforts and their supporting tasks are competing for assets and logistics.
• The | Main Effort shifts when the needs of MTC and Casualy Collection & Evactuation end
• As MTC forces address the threat, areas of wounded and deceased victims are identified.
• Designates a Safety Leader to bring forces secure zones around those casualties
• Designates warm zones
• Uses key train: “Any area that gives a combatant a significant advantage if they seize, retain, or control it.”
• Safety Leader establishes a safety corridor, and can request optional Security forces.

MTC Unit Organization

• Identify patrol elements' primary and supporting tasks by using small elements
• The blending makes unit taskings is to organize and prepare for resilient and sophisticated attacks that may prove tough to extinguish

First Responders

• Everyone has the duty
• Patrol elements are our most abundant and multi-purpose asset when it comes because patrol is the base law enforcement tactical unit and is in abundance compared to other law enforcement assets.
• Assign Tasks in MTC Move into team. to team contact with those, and safety, providing and safe corders _SWAT capabilities should be developed as a regional joint asset.. SWAT teams are expensive and require a great deal of logistical support and manning, to extend ASHER capability _Same can be said for K-9s, and Explosive device teams
• 3 phases First by facility Second response by Responder packages Third , contingency equipment

Phase Tasks

• Must organize first package
• Set up MG
• Organize 1st package equipment
• A second can be designated in the case of a large event The main goal of contact planning is to Identify the number of officers needed to fulfill the above key task The number of first packs, for example needs to be adequate . If they aren't, additional forces go in the 2nd response packages

Command

Then the organization can be directed to the objective where first pack is manted

Medical Management

• Every casualty needs to be saved as the scene is accounted as
• Medical command runs three different stations to assist with this
• They also manage rescue, a team that runs from triages to medical zones
• After that there needs to be a medical Evacuation management on which facility receives which transports
• Everything falls by local management with cooperation under the operation

Casualty Collection End State and Tasks

• C&C is all about what's where, and life saving the wounded
• Three are 3 stages
• A location is the medical destination The management runs it's area with all the units, and rescue squads, while under orders of operation managers
• There's needs to be team to help assist with moving and lifting wounded

Medical Transportation

• All comes down to EMTs helping assist and saving those injured
• They are helped by a safety group to protect and extract people as needed
• Wheel units go to Helicopter landing locations

Operation Managment

• When a vehicle arrives at the the destination and delivers, another is deployed quickly
• There need to be landing locations too, that can service areas if they end up needing air