Homeland Security: Roles, Responsibilities, and Recommendations

This report discusses the goals, objectives, and metrics of the Homeland Security agency of the United States. It covers the agency's statutory missions, jurisdiction, and objectives, as well as its goals and metrics. The report also provides recommendations for policy changes and decentralization.

TERRORISM AND HOMELAND
SECURITY
NAME OF THE STUDENT:
NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY:

AGENCY DESCRIPTION
Statutory Missions
 `The United States Department of Homeland security is a federal
agency which has the mission of protecting the US against any kind
of internal and external threats.
 The wide ranging duties of the homeland security include the likes of
the aviation security, control of border and tackle different kinds of
emergency situations.
 As an additional role, the security agency has the role to control any
forms of cyber security breach.
 The following US agency has appointed the best IT experts to tackle
the following problem as such a problem can lead to different
security breach issues.

AGENCY DESCRIPTION
Jurisdiction
 The committee of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is
said to be the primary committee with jurisdictions on a wide range
of different affairs of the government of USA.
 The main task of the agency is to study the policies and operations
of all the different agencies under the USA government and
recommend if any changes are required.
 The changes in the government can help in the makeup of the
security and thus can help in protecting the USA internal and
external rights in an easy manner.
 The name change of the organization happened in the year 2002
after the passage of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

AGENCY DESCRIPTION
Jurisdiction
 The committee also receives and measures different forms of
executive services of the government departments.
 Some of the governmental departments include Postal Services,
status of government officers as well as the employees of the
different forms of Governmental organizations.
 The committee of the agency basically is sub divided into three
separate sub-divisions.

AGENCY DESCRIPTION
Roles and Responsibilities
 The major responsibility of protecting the citizens of the nation is
bestowed on homeland security.
 The different disciplines under which they carry out their
responsibility includes the;
 Emergency response
 Counter-Terrorism
 Cyber security
The agency does not only provide security in times of security threats
and terrorist threats, the organization is also responsible for the
preparation of different strategies to counter threats occurring from
natural disasters.

AGENCY DESCRIPTION
Roles and Responsibilities
 There are varied roles for each and every people working for the
agency, however, the presence of a common theme binds together
all of the different individuals who work for the organization.
 This includes the common aim of controlling the country’s security in
the most advanced manner possible.
 The controlling of the security of the organization will lead the
organization to safeguard the country from any kinds of attacks.

PROGRAM DISCUSSION
Mission Goals
 The department of Homeland Security
has the aims to work in a coordinated manner
that can easily address the common security
concerns. The different goals and objectives
are set by the DHS of USA which are then
implemented by the agency. The policies and
guidelines generally address the different
requirements of the country and make the
working group a statutory organization that is
important for the success of the company.

PROGRAM DISCUSSION
Objectives
 The objectives of the Homeland Security are as follows;
Prevention of different Terrorist attacks- The major mission of the
organization is to gather necessary intelligence and enquire cases
that can help them to prevent any form of deadly attacks. The
prevention of the deadly attacks can be helpful for the nation to
address the different kinds of the security concerns. The
prevention of terrorist attacks is the primary objective of the
agency.
Increase of security- The increase in the security of the nation
includes the internal security, external security and security from
different kinds of border issues. The agency constantly monitors
different governmental departments and their operations in order
to prevent any attacks and security breaches that threaten the
country.

PROGRAM DISCUSSION
Metrics
 The department of Homeland Security generally describes the
issues related with the border plans.
 The US-Mexico borders added the estimated stocks of different
kinds of the unauthorized the different kinds of the security for USA
(Daalder, 2019).

PROGRAM DISCUSSION
Justification for Reprioritization
 The reprioritization of USA policies can be help to ensure a
sustainable policy and ensure success for the country.
 The success of the effort will ensure the depend on the US
government in order to organize the new policies.
 The policy organization can help in the success of the
organization and thus reorganized to reflect the new
priority (Daalder, 2019).
 The new priority can be access to address the different
technological changes that can be problem for the agency.
 The development of new technologies can help the
organization to maintain a security of the nation and
already allow the same in successful areas.

RECOMMENDATIONS
Some of the recommendations for Homeland Security of USA are as follows;
 Changes in Policies- There are policies of the government that provides
hamper to the operations of the agency. It is important for the management
of the agency to pressurize the government of USA to amend some crucial
issues that can help in the success of the organization in a successful
manner (Agencies Agencies & Address, 2019). The changes in policy can
help in the success of the organization/agency in a complete manner.
 More Freedom to develop-The government must provide the necessary
freedom to develop the agency. The best development can come under the
total decentralization of the monitoring departments. The monitoring
departments must be decentralized so that the agency can gain necessary
freedom to bind the national security in a structured manner. The better
security of the nation can thus be dependent on decentralization.

CONCLUSION
The following report has presented the goals,
objectives and the metrics of the agency
named Homeland Security of United States of
America.
The report has presented a compact report
with the analysis of the roles and legislative
powers of the agency.

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