Roles and Responsibilities of Homeland Security

Home Security and Home Land Defense Organization
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The 2002 Homeland Security Act leading to the creation of a Homeland Security department in the United States, assembled diverse players as the critical components for averting terrorist-related attacks in the nation. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2016) indicate that these stakeholders comprised the federal government, the states, private entities, and the local governments. Although each organization has unique duties within its jurisdiction, they all share unique ones and responsibilities that comprise information sharing and intelligence generation. The act requires them to collaborate and create a mechanism for promoting seamless information exchange to facilitate terrorism crackdown and eradication within and beyond the borders of the U.S. The Homeland Security Act (2002) specifies these roles and responsibilities as identifying, developing, and providing accurate information. It also clarifies that the shared details must remain timely and actionable by ensuring that they arise from a thorough analysis of diverse components of homeland security.
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