Virginia Public Safety and Emergency Management

Definition:

Responsible for public safety during emergencies in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Includes VDEM (Virginia Department of Emergency Management)

Inventory Elements:

• none

Roles and Responsibilities:

Emergency Management
• Supports coordination of evacuation plans among federal state and local transportation, emergency and law enforcement agencies that may be involved in a large scale evacuation
• Recieve landline public safety calls and forward to appropriate dispatch center
• Provide emergency response plans or event plans
• Performs receiving mayday messages and security alarms, determines an appropriate response, and either uses internal resources or contacts a local agency to provide that response
• Monitors and detects potential, looming and actual disasters including natural and man-made disasters
• Maintain centralized emergency management system
• Interface with other transportation management agencies to support coordinated emergency response involving multiple agencies
• Conduct offensive operations to mitigate a hazardous material emergency
• Coordinates evacuation plans among allied agencies and manages evacuation and reentry of population in teh vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses as a risk to security