What does NIMS mean for IT managers in police departments?
IT managers in police departments and in local government can play an important support role in the implementation of NIMS. The NIMS is out nation’s incident management system. The NIMS integrates best emergency management practice, procedures, and systems utilized by emergency management professionals across the nation into a national framework for incident response. 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. Information technology in police departments and local government can provide important supporting capabilities essential to implementing and continuously refining the NIMS. IT initiatives that support NIMS implementation include: • Voice and data communications systems • Record keeping and resource tracking information systems • Display systems for disaster response in an emergency operations center or at a field command post • Specialized technologies that facilitate incide
