National Incident Management System Provides Collaboration Between Governments

Through its design, the National Incident Management System (NIMS) provides a mechanism for effective and efficient collaboration between federal, state, courthouse and municipalities. For domestic organizations, it is particularly important because it functions in cooperation to prevent or control domestic events ("NIMS", 2004). An essential part of NIMS is the Incident Command System (ICS) which provides an important interface system between different counterpart organizations, or jurisdiction that needs to cooperate to respond to sudden events ("NIMS", 2004).

NRP is a specific application of National Incident Management System (NIMS). NIMS provides the theories, concepts, principles, terms and organizational processes necessary for effective, efficient and joint event management at all levels. Although NIMS provides templates, it is not a plan for operational event management or resource allocation. The NRP can utilize the integrated framework of NIMS to provide federal support for national, regional and tribal incident managers, federal support and direct federal authority and the enforcement of legally mandated responsibilities To

Security provides operational and / or resource coordination for the federal government to support incident command structures in the field. The National Emergency Plan outlines how the Federal Government implements Robert Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) in the National Accident Management System. The Stafford Act outlines how the federal government supports local and state governments when disasters and emergencies overwhelm the ability to save lives, protect public health, safety, wealth and revive the community doing.

On March 1, 2004, the National Accident Management System (NIMS) was established. The purpose of this statement is to provide a consistent approach to incident management for federal, state, local, and tribal governments. According to Homeland Security Secretary Presidential Decree 5, all federal agencies need to adopt NIMS and use them for planning and activities of domestic accident management and emergency prevention, response, response, recovery and mitigation, respectively. Emergency Management Reform Act after Hurricane Katrina instructed Homeland Security Secretary to appoint officials in department as sudden capacity (SCF). During the announced disaster, Homeland Security Secretary will decide whether it is necessary to provide SCF support. Thereafter, the Secretary approves FEMA to appoint and place DHS components and nominated staff of other Federal administrations to respond to special disasters.