Why was the school police chief, who oversaw, by far, the smallest law-enforcement agency...
Why was the school police chief, who oversaw, by far, the smallest law-enforcement agency that responded, in charge of the situation response in the first place?Uvalde police officers, Texas state troopers and members of the U.S. Border Patrol’s elite BORTAC squad all responded to the
“People watch too much TV. They think whenever the FBI walks in, they take over,” said Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset, whose department responded to the Santa Fe massacre four years ago. “You have the jurisdiction.” Last week, for example, DPS Commander Steven McCraw explained that officers waited for more heavily armed reinforcements from the BORTAC squad before they finally confronted the gunman. The delay was based on the erroneous assumption that the situation had turned from an active shooting to a barricaded suspect.Public safety agencies across the United States use the “National Incident Command System” to respond to emergencies, said Harris County Fire Marshal Laurie Christensen.
In particularly challenging situations, it’s not uncommon for agencies to create a “unified command,” in which authority over the incident is shared by leaders of multiple agencies.
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