Terrorism: Role of State and Local Police

A. New threat, New Roles3

1. Homeland Security3

B. Intelligence Gathering and Sharing4

1. New Paradigm4

C. Challenges to First Responders7

1. Resources7

Terrorism: Role of State and Local Police

A. New threat, New Roles

1. Homeland Security

a. Shared responsibilities

Given that terrorism is a threat to homeland security, freedom and values of the state and its citizens, action by local police aim to provide appropriate and adequate response tailored to combat this phenomenon. The four pillars of its comprehensive approach include prevention, protection, prosecution and response. Local police works hard to prevent and decisive action against terrorist acts and protect citizens and infrastructure. It also deals with the causes, sources and possibilities of terrorism. Is also necessary coordination between law enforcement and judicial authorities in the local police and international cooperation to combat this transnational phenomenon was effective.

b. National Strategy needs local LE support

Most formulations that seeks to define terrorism, agree in stating that it is a premeditated and deliberate violence directed against non-participating persons, whose purpose is to cause fear as a means to fulfill a political, religious or ideological requirements and objectives. In this view, in order to combat against terrorism, it is important and crucial that strategy adopted by the state and local police should be supported by local people (Derin Gure, 2009). The reason of this statement is that these through this support, state and local police get motivation in their objectives as they become bale to take more firm or difficult steps that can help them in meeting the objectives.

B. Intelligence Gathering and Sharing

1. New Paradigm

a. Fusion Centers

Based on the terrorist threat, the state and local police should develop a global strategy to contribute to the day's global security. State government should adopt strategy of good governance in efforts to tackle the causes of radicalization. In this view, the United Nations proposes that an effective fight against terrorism organized around the following four objectives: prevention, protection, persecution and response.

Prevention

The objective of prevention is to combat radicalization and recruitment of terrorists to identify the methods that day propaganda and the tools used by terrorists. Although it is primarily for Member States to take daily challenge, the United Nation contributes Sciences to help coordinate national policies, exchange information and best determine policies (Hubbard, Deal & Hess, 2005). For the objective of prevention, it is important to focus on the following priorities:

Forward to good governance, democracy, education and economic prosperity (through assistance programs);

To develop common approaches to spot and tackle problem behavior;

To establish an intercultural dialogue;

To explain United Nation policies in a better way;

To tackle terrorism encouraging and recruiting new terrorists and key environments;

To continue to investigate the area and on and experience exchange analyzer.

Protection

The objective of protection is to make the terrorist attacks less vulnerable and also minimize the consequences of attacks. It proposes a collective effort to protect the borders, transport network and all cross-border infrastructures. For better control of borders, the state and local police should use the biometrics and identity ...