Who developed the mutual aid agreements?
The agreements were developed by The CAPCO Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), which includes emergency management representatives from all 10 CAPCO counties. The HSTF designated a subcommittee to focus specifically on regional mutual aid agreements. The subcommittee worked with CAPCO staff and legal counsel to draft the Tier I and Tier II agreement templates using examples of agreements in other COGs, existing agreements within the CAPCO region, and the templates provided by the Attorney Generals Office as samples. The draft agreements were presented to the CAPCO Executive Committee for approval on October 15, 2003.
