§607 Terrorism prevention

Summary

The Administrator must make sure at least 25 percent of the combined money for the grants under sections 604 and 605 is spent on law enforcement terrorism prevention. That includes things like sharing and analyzing information, making targets harder to attack, spotting threats, stopping terrorists, training and exercises for mass-casualty and active-shooter events (including at airports and transit), overtime for law enforcement tied to state homeland security plans (including border security), running and staffing fusion centers, paying intelligence analysts, any activities allowed by the Department’s Fiscal Year 2007 Program Guidance for the Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program, and other prevention activities the Administrator approves. The funds must also help law enforcement and emergency responders from rural and underrepresented communities take part in fusion centers when appropriate. An Office for State and Local Law Enforcement is created inside the Policy Directorate and will be led by an Assistant Secretary who has law enforcement, intelligence, and counterterrorism experience. The Secretary must give the office permanent staff and other needed personnel. The Assistant Secretary will coordinate department-wide policies on the role of state and local law enforcement in preventing and responding to disasters and terrorism, act as a bridge to State, local, and tribal agencies, work with the intelligence office on information-sharing needs, help focus grants on terrorism prevention, help develop national voluntary standards for tactical training and protective gear, and, with the Administrator, study whether special law enforcement deployment teams are feasible and report the results to Congress. Nothing here reduces the Administrator’s existing duties.