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Building Peer-to-Peer Engagements
Encouraging peer-to-peer conflict resolution and violence prevention initiatives among young people helps communities build resilience against terrorism, and in turn, provides critical protective factors for youth.
Protection
Snapshot: Enhancing Hoist Rescue Gloves for Aerial Rescue
Rescue helicopter hoist operators wear gloves to protect the hand that guides the hoist cable during rescue descents and ascents.
DHS Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention and Protection FY2021 Budget Request Fact Sheet
The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Budget Request strengthens the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) prevention and protection missions.
Snapshot: Assessing Respirators for The Coast Guard Special Ops
DHS S&T is committed to ensuring that all of our responders have the tools they need to do their jobs safely and securely—including reliable personal protective equipment that won’t let them down when it matters the most.
S&T Tactical Eyewear
Police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other emergency response personnel use tactical eyewear to protect their eyes when working in the field. Common hazards that responders use tactical spectacles and goggles to protect against include shrapnel, blunt objects, chemicals, and blood and other biohazards. Included reports: focus group report, assessment report
We Stand Ready
Ronald Rowe, Deputy Assistant Director, United States Secret Service (USSS), describes how the USSS stands ready to protect the President, its protectees and America’s youth by following up on every threat. Learn how the USSS keeps the homeland safe by safeguarding National Special Security events and combating active shooters, online child exploitations and cyber bullying.
Date Added: April 26, 2018
Statement By Secretary Jeh C. Johnson On The United Nations General Assembly And The Pope’s Visit To The United States
Last week after returning from the United Nations, President Obama commended the United States Secret Service for its extraordinary work providing security for the United Nations General Assembly and the visit by Pope Francis to the United States.
Good Gravy, Let’s Talk Turkey!: TSA Holiday Travel Tips
If you’re getting ready to travel for the holidays and need to brush up on airport security, you’re in the right place! Here is a cornucopia of travel info, tips and linkage that will help you get to where you’re going safely. You’ll be as good as gravy, and in my book, gravy is about as good as it gets. Next to turducken…
