Join the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in Baltimore, MD, as they co-sponsor the 3rd Annual FAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Symposium. The Symposium provides stakeholders with the opportunity to talk face-to-face with a cross-section of government and industry representatives about regulations, research, and other initiatives to integrate UAS into the National Ai...

Join hundreds of colleagues and friends in bringing the school resiliency plan against school violence, the core of emergency response in the school setting. Describe new techniques and methods to address challenges in responding to school health emergencies. Honor the significant contributions of the county and local government leaders plus the volunteers. Get practical program ideas of the Best Practices from the 2013 Experience. Be updated...

The world's foremost professional development opportunity for local government professionals. Each year, through its highly praised Annual Conference, ICMA continues its tradition of offering an abundance of educational, information-sharing, and networking tools to help you manage your community in today’s complex environment. ICMA's President invites you to Join us at the ICMA Annual Conference, where you'll get the tools, tips, informa...

The National Geospatial Preparedness Summit (NGPS) brings together public safety practitioners and GIS responders – to build skills in developing and implementing GIS-based decision support tools, share best practices, build peer relationships, and validate skills and capabilities through workshops and exercises. All the training workshops and materials are provided at NO COST to public-sector participants from Federal, local, state, and...

(SLS) Crime Prevention: Security Lighting Systems Design - This workshop examines the relationships between theory, energy conservation, and social and environmental factors for man-made and natural light applications. Two full days focus on the effective use of lighting the environment to augment other forms of security technology. The effects of light on human physiological and psychological behavior are discussed in detail.

Based on the assumption that preventive measures must be in place to be effective, students learn 25 mitigation strategies that when successfully applied reduce the impact of terrorist attack. We examine the current state of terrorism in the United States, its evolving nature and the future use of weapons of mass destruction. A variety of options are explored for addressing the most common manmade threats we face today and for the foreseeable...

This 2-day course explores principles developed over the last twenty years in the “social behavior” arena. The same concepts that effect positive social engineering are duplicated in designing inhabited spaces to cause people to do what you want them to do. Students will learn to design “from the curb inward” and incorporate overlapping threat prevention principles. We also look at crime and terrorist activity and their...

Safe-room, panic rooms, evacuation shelters, tornado cellars and collective shelters all provide protection from man-made or natural threats, for both short and long periods of time. They usually serves as a place to repair to during emergency situations; a fall back position in case of emergencies, if you will. Effective design components; i.e., air requirements and waste management, capacity limits, use of electronic media and other technolo...

The 2016 Emergency Preparedness & Hazmat Response Conference is being held at the Sheraton Station Square, Pittsburgh, Pa from November 1st to the 4th. Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Region 13 Task Force, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Infrastructure Protection, this national conference continues to bring the highest quality training and education to all involved in emergency management and public safety, as we...

NOTE: Non-IALEIA/LEIU members who are not employed by a law enforcement agency/military/national security will need IALEIA/LEIU Board approval. Speakers: Internationally recognized speakers and those who are leaders in the intelligence community will be on hand to provide up-to-date information. Private security personnel are invited to attend non-law enforcement sensitive training at the non-member rate. Speakers and workshops will involve tr...