Virginia State Police

Definition:

The Virginia State Police provides state law enforcement and operate dispatch centers to respond to emergencies. Responsible for operating Virginia State Police Centers. Includes Computer Aided Dispatch database, which collects incident/emergency detection, dispatch, response, and status information related to the Virginia State Police officers/equipment. Performed out of division offices. Also responsible for Virginia State Police vehicles.

Inventory Elements:

• VSP Center
• VSP Mobile Unified Command Center
• VSP Vehicles

Roles and Responsibilities:

Archived Data Systems for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture
• Collects and archives traffic and environmental information directly from the roadside for use in off-line planning, research, and analysis.
• Perform quality checks, error notification, and archive coordination.
• Collect and maintain data and data catalogs from one or more data sources.
• Collect and store information related to public safety and emergency management for use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
• Select and format data residing in an ITS archive to facilitate local, state, and federal government data reporting requirements.

Commercial Vehicle Operations for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture
• Respond to commercial vehicle and freight equipment related emergencies including incidents involving hazardous materials as well as the detection of non-permitted transport of security sensitive hazmat.

Emergency Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture
• Dispatch emergency vehicles to incidents.
• Forward, when appropriate, emergency call information to the appropriate response agency.
• Gather dispatch and routing information from an emergency vehicle using on-board equipment for vehicle tracking and communications with care facilities.
• Plan and coordinate evacuation and reentry of a population in the vicinity of a disaster or other emergency that poses a risk to public safety.
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• Provide incident notification to other ITS centers to notify the traveling public.
• Route public safety vehicles to facilitate the quickest/safest arrival either based on real-time traffic information and road conditions or request routes from the traffic management center.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.
• Monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies in order to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Track location and status of emergency vehicles.
• Take emergency calls and collect information about the caller and the reported emergency.
• Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Gather pertinent incident information and relay it the responding units.
• Request signal preemption via short range communication directly from the emergency vehicle to the traffic control equipment on the roadside.

Freeway Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Incident Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture
• Provide incident information to dispatched public safety personnel via on-board vehicle systems.
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.
• Provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration among public safety agencies for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
• Transmit incident information from on-scene public safety to the public safety center via on-board vehicle systems.

Maintenance and Construction for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.

Parking Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Surface Street Management for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture
• None defined

Transit Services for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture
• Plan strategically for emergency response.
• Share information with other public safety agencies via the Emergency Operations Centers to support large-scale incidents and disasters.

Traveler Information for Virginia SWR ITS Architecture
• None defined