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HSGP Appendix | 2023 Page A-15
<br />•Regional counterterrorism training programs for small, medium, and large jurisdictions to
<br />exchange information and discuss the current threat environment, lessons learned, and best
<br />practices to help prevent, protect against, and mitigate acts of terrorism;
<br />•Support for coordination of regional full-scale training exercises (federal, state, and local law
<br />enforcement participation) focused on terrorism-related events; and
<br />•Law enforcement Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high yield Explosives
<br />detection and response capabilities, such as bomb detection/disposal capability deployment,
<br />sustainment, or enhancement, including canine teams, robotics platforms, and x-ray technology.
<br />Additional examples of allowable LETPA projects include but are not limited to:
<br />•Coordination between fusion centers and other intelligence, operational, analytic, or
<br />investigative efforts including, but not limited to JTTFs, Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs), High-
<br />Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA), Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS)
<br />Centers, criminal intelligence units, real-time crime analysis centers and DHS intelligence,
<br />operational, analytic, and investigative entities;
<br />•Implementation and maintenance of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR)
<br />Initiative (NSI), including training for front-line personnel on identifying and reporting
<br />suspicious activities, tips/leads, and online/social media-based threats, as well as the execution
<br />and management of threat assessment programs to identify, evaluate, and analyze indicators and
<br />behaviors indicative of terrorism, targeted violence, threats to life, and other criminal activity;
<br />•Management and operation of activities that support the execution of the intelligence process
<br />and fusion centers, including but not limited to: Fusion Liaison Officer (FLO) programs,
<br />security programs to protect the facility, personnel, and information, and the protection of
<br />privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties;
<br />•Implementation of the “If You See Something, Say Something®” campaign to raise public
<br />awareness of indicators of terrorism and terrorism-related crime and associated efforts to
<br />increase the sharing of information with public and private sector partners, including nonprofit
<br />organizations. Note: DHS requires that all public and private sector partners wanting to
<br />implement and/or expand the DHS “If You See Something, Say Something®” campaign using
<br />grant funds work directly with the DHS Office of Partnership and Engagement (OPE) to ensure
<br />all public awareness materials (e.g., videos, posters, tri-folds, etc.) are consistent with DHS’s
<br />messaging and strategy for the campaign and compliant with the initiative’s trademark, which is
<br />licensed to DHS by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Coordination with
<br />OPE, through the Campaign’s Office (seesay@hq.dhs.gov), must be facilitated by the FEMA
<br />HQ Preparedness Officer;
<br />•Increase physical security, through law enforcement personnel and other protective measures,
<br />by implementing preventive and protective measures at critical infrastructure sites or at-risk
<br />nonprofit organizations;
<br />•Building and sustaining preventive radiological and nuclear detection capabilities, including
<br />those developed through the Securing the Cities initiative;
<br />•Integration and interoperability of systems and data, such as computer aided dispatch (CAD)
<br />and record management systems (RMS), to facilitate the collection, evaluation, and assessment
<br />of suspicious activity reports, tips/leads, and online/social media-based threats; and
<br />•Development of countering violent extremism programs, projects, and initiatives, addressing
<br />prevention, intervention, and diversion efforts, including training on roles of law enforcement
<br />and how to effectively partner with law enforcement; developing and promoting training
<br />specifically for law enforcement executives and frontline officers on potential behaviors and
<br />indicators of violent extremism and how to appropriately analyze and report them; supporting
<br />community and law enforcement engagement strategies such as table top exercises, roundtable
<br />events, town hall meetings, and peer to peer activities; funding for existing and/or expansion of
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