This handbook provides guidance to public officials who are charged with assuring the security of city infrastructure. It covers all areas of security planning and crisis management.

Topics include:

• potential threats
• vulnerability assessment
• crisis management
• emergency preparedness
• disaster planning
• emergency response
• response team coordination
• communications with first responders, news media, and public officials

The book explains how to implement a well-thought-out security plan before an extraordinary event strikes. Having a plan in place will allow public officials to quickly respond to and stabilize chaotic situations, protect threatened lives and property, and return the organization and community to normal as quickly as possible.