What do elected and appointed officials need to do promote NIMS implementation?
Elected and appointed officials play an important leadership role in the NIMS implementation process. The benefit of NIMS is most evident at the local level, when a community as a whole prepares for and provides an integrated response to an incident. Chief elected and appointed officials need to be involved in all aspects of NIMS implementation to include the following: • Adopt NIMS at the community level for all government departments and agencies and encourage NIMS adoption and use by associations, utilities, non-government organizations and the private sector. • All of the NIMS command and management systems (ICS, multi-agency coordination systems and public information systems) require the direct involvement of chief elected and appointed officials in a community during emergencies/disasters. NIMS requires all Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs), and standard operating procedures/ guidelines (SOPs/ SOGs) to incorporate NIMS components, principles and policies, to include emergenc
