CJ 682 Risk Assessment
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1-2 Case Study: A Tale of One City: The Purpose of Risk Assessment
Viktoria Prifti
CJ 682 Threat Assessment
Professor Henderson
09/22/2023
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Main Steps to Risk Management
The team started by identifying critical infrastructure (asset assessment), which included
the chemical plant, electric plant, ammunition pier, reservoir, regional schools, and hospital.
Steps 2 and 3 focused on assessing the existing or potential threats while determining the
vulnerabilities and weaknesses[ CITATION Ben181 \l 1033
\m Fab22 \m Cro23]. Step four
revolved around conducting a criticality and consequence analysis of each infrastructure.
Thereafter, the team developed countermeasures to handle each threat and vulnerability.
Key community partners
The team worked with operators and owners within the area. Likewise, it collaborated
with public officials, including the fire chief, director of public health, and city
engineer[ CITATION USD05 \l 1033 ]. The collaboration was seminal in prioritizing
jurisdiction-based risks.
Regional law enforcement partners
The assessment team also collaborated with the Joint Terrorism Task Force and Regional
Intelligence Center. The trained police officers gained knowledge and pertinent skills needed
when identifying potential threats to the critical infrastructure.
Critical infrastructures
The most significant CI was the electric plant, which supplies at least 50% of the state
and its neighbors. The next infrastructure[ CITATION USD05 \l 1033 ] is the chemical plant,
which employs a substantial chunk of the populace. The plant receives/supplies materials
through the rail network, which transverses via the city. Likewise, the reservoir was identified as
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a critical asset as it contains a peer used to supply military weapons/ammunition. The
penultimate infrastructure was the regional high, middle, and elementary schools. The least
significant asset is the large hospital, which provides services to the 4 counties.
Threat Level, Vulnerability Level, and Criticality Level
The key infrastructures are classified below using a 3-point scale:
Major critical infrastructure risk
The team surmised that the community faces a risk from the ordnance pier. The
evaluation indicates that the pier is seminal in transferring weapons which are then stored on
ships/vessels.
Importance of objective assessment
The objective assessment was useful in considering the nature and threat of each
infrastructure[ CITATION Vep21 \l 1033 ]. If it had not been used, then the team would have
surmised that the chemical plant posed a huge risk. This summation would have been incorrect.
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