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18 Once the transportation agency has conducted its risk assessment, the next step is to develop a security plan. In this chapter, planning objectives are highlighted and the core components or elements needed to ensure that a comprehensive plan is developed are examined.
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Plans and Strategies 19 The SSEPP describes security planning as "more of a process than a product." This approach coincides with a vision of a security plan being a dynamic document continually under review and subject to change. In developing the security plan, the need for flexibility should be reinforced.
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20 Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies Establishing Priorities As shown in Figure 2-1, plan development starts with identifying the purpose of the document. Although the plan should be flexible enough to cover a broad range of security incidents, the best way to ensure plan effectiveness is to use a prioritized scenario-based list of critical event types to drive plan activity.
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Plans and Strategies 21 Organizing Roles and Responsibilities In this phase of planning, key personnel and their security roles and responsibilities are determined. Incident-based priority security tasks should be listed and assigned to a specific individual known as the primary or principal.
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22 Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies • Part E: Recovery – Examine policies to assist in recovering from incidents that have occurred so service can resume as quickly as possible. – Establish a review of policies, documents, plans, and vehicles.
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Plans and Strategies 23 being assessed and an understanding of the operating environment in which work is performed. By default, qualitative analysis is the most widely used approach to risk analysis in the security industry.
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24 Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies Then, using assessment data obtained through analysis, the agency adds more costly system components until the level of security required to protect critical assets has been met. But developing a systems approach to security is more challenging than simply costing out security countermeasures into a hierarchy and applying them to an existing security vulnerability or situation.
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Plans and Strategies 25 for signs of forced entry to bridge access points. Depending on the criticality of the bridge in terms of transportation operations, this approach may be optimal.
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26 Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies security measures such as increased lighting, improved communications, passenger flow gating, or simply directional signs can serve the dual purpose of adding to the effectiveness of service delivery. Five-year capital planning is the point in the funding cycle where an agency can take best advantage of the development of a security plan.
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