Federal Emergency Management Agency

The United States have offered different definition of gang activity. According to the federal law defines criminal gangs as’ “criminal street gang” as “an ongoing group, club, organization, or association of 5 or more persons; (A) That has as 1 of its primary purposes the commission of 1 or more of the criminal offenses described in subsection (c); (B) the members of which engage, or have engaged within the past 5 years, in a continuing series of offenses described in subsection (c); and (C)…

Created by Congressional legislation in the late 1970s, the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH) has come a long way in providing regulatory oversite for the implementation of safety measures in the workplace. The establishment of the OSH Act was the result of constant workplace accidents, conditions and practices that did not take environmental health and safety measures into account, thereby creating hazardous working conditions for American workers. Since its establishment, the…

Transitional Resources: Hope, Opportunity and Recovery Transitional Resources is a mental health agency that helps provide a safe place for individuals suffering from mental illness. We provide outpatient, residential, housing and vocational services for approximately 300 mentally ill individuals annually in King County. Our outpatient case managers small caseloads allow our staff to have more contact with their clients. Our strategic plan is to continue with these small caseloads but increase…

waste management should follow, such as, record keeping, emergency procedures, and unit - specific standards. Federal Land Policy And Management Act - Created in 1976, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act recognizes the value pertaining to our Nation’s public land and provide management to protect it, for present and future generations. Until this act was developed, the government intended that all land would be used for settlement and private development. The Bureau of Land Management…

organizational members, would enable the organization to manage its critical environmental problem” (Wilson, 1989, p. 25). In his writings the organization’s tasks were different from the organization’s goals. The critical tasks of law enforcement agencies are to provide order, protect, serve and enable people to feel safe and secure. Dominant trends in policing innovation over the last two decades include community and problem-oriented policing. However, the tragic events of September 2001…

public eye. There are many factors and decisions that happen behind the scenes in management and supervisory teams. Many controversial judgment calls need to be made, while also keeping the public interest in mind. Numerous issues arise within the ranks and within the organization in areas such…

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the . federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment. The EPA was founded by President Richard Nixon and was structured on December 2, 1970 when operations began. After Nixon signed an executive order. The EPA is mostly controlled by its administrator, who is appointed by the president and followed by needing to be approved by Congress. Though the EPA is not a Cabinet department…

time the hurricane made landfall, heavy rains had already threatened the city’s infrastructure. The levees contributed to the flooding which submerged approximately 80% of the metropolitan area. It is believed that then-president George W. Bush and Federal officials were warned that the levees would likely be breached by the storm, but were negligent when it came to taking the necessary steps to preventing the crisis. To support this claim, research will examine the weakness of the levees along…

The Performance Management Framework developed out of necessity after the introduction of the Activity Based Funding and Management (ABF/ABM) models on July 1 2010. ABF/ABM were implemented as a means of increasing transparency and accountability in the way that health services are funded and delivered .The aim of ABF/ABM is to make the health system more efficient and more publically accountable. The PMF is conducted annually with the aim of seeing if set Key Performance Indicators KPI’s have…

it will make you emotionally and physically tired. It is a demanding and challenging career. A police officer’s duty is to maintain public order, preventing crime. Police officers typically work within a specific jurisdiction on a local, state or federal level and obligated to work within the limits of the law. They must live up to great exceptions, you must have great responsibility and integrity to become a police officer. Municipal police officers are to enforce laws in a town or city.…