| Ports are made up of a series of inter-related and inter-reliant facilities that are often run by different organizations and can cover widespread and often, discontinuous geographical regions. The port authority generally has overall accountability for response to security alerts or crisis events by facility operators but would not generally be responsible for the day to day running of each facility.
To effectively manage security alerts or crisis events, port security officers must be able to identify, contact and communicate with, on-duty security personnel in any or all port facilities as well as emergency services, government operations centres, and possibly military and government security services. The identification of relevant office holders and security personnel has to critically on the current duty rosters of attending personnel.
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Management by port security personnel, of security alerts or crisis events is complicated by the presence or proximity of mutually antagonistic cargoes (e.g. fuels and fertilisers), specific dangerous goods or bulk carriers and other specialised vessel types that may be loading, offloading, entering or leaving the port at the time of the alert or event. The steps or actions required when a security incident occurs are consequently modified by the presence of these cargoes, dangerous goods and vessels.
The planning for and constant tracking of the current state of circumstances is a laborious task. When the task is divorced from the actual running of the port, i.e. not an audited and searchable record, generated as a result of events taking place, it becomes hard to maintain, difficult to validate, administratively intensive and very expensive.
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