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Development of DHS
Analytical Study
Development of DHS
Introduction
On 20 September 2001, after the major terrorist attack in America 9/11; ruling President George W. Bush advised The Office of Homeland Security (OHS) that was acted officially on 8 October 2001
On 6 June 2002, After OHS implementation President Bush announced his planning for the creation of DHS (Department of Homeland Security).
That has imposed in working from the July period in 2002. In comparison of OHS, DHS is a permanent forum which has fixed budget and specific mission.
Eleven days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the White House appointed Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge as the first director of the Office of Homeland Security. The office was designed to oversee and coordinate a comprehensive national strategy to safeguard the country against terrorism and respond to any future attacks.
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Political Aspect
Later on, DHS has established an influential image in front of other nations in terms of Political and economical affairs.
The department has involved all possible aspects including science and technology in the favor of its homeland security, FEMA and FBI along with other medical-care services is also playing an effective role in emergency preparedness.
With the passage of the Homeland Security Act by Congress in November 2002, the Department of Homeland Security was formally developed as a standalone, Cabinet-level department. When it was established, the DHS combined 22 different federal departments and agencies into a unified, integrated Cabinet agency.
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Political Aspect Contd.
Along with secret information analysis and infrastructure related protection provisions are also added in order to improve current working scenario for the betterment of their localities.
It requires more than two hundred thousand of employees every day working hard to keep the national boundaries secure as well as to support the nation in the time of crisis.
This is not just a Strategic Framework for countering terrorism, but rather it addresses both terrorism and targeted violence. The Federal Government has been moving toward recognizing terrorism and targeted violence as intertwined and interrelated for some time, but this is the first national-level strategy to explicitly state that terrorism and targeted violence overlap, intersect, and interact as problems, and that they necessitate a shared set of solutions.
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Need of Creation
Till the 9/11 terror attack, the investigation agencies in nation or rather, the entire administrative system had division of power.
This division was in the form of covering various criterion of work related to the establishment of law and order.
The division was in the form of OHS, FBI and common policing methods.
This Strategic Framework clearly elucidates the nature of today’s domestic challenges, including providing an extended assessment of the dangers posed by domestic terrorists, including racially-and ethnically-motivated violent extremists, particularly white supremacist violent extremists.
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Need of Creation II
However, the invasion through 9/11 broke out heated debates over developing national security structure.
The demand was to review the existing framework of security and bring forward something in the form of some agency that was efficient and well organized to address multiple issues.
DHS’s Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence is...