ICS 100.LE, Introduction to the Incident Command System for Law Enforcement, introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) and provides the foundation for higher-level ICS training. This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of ICS. It also explains the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS). This course uses the same objectives and content as other ICS courses with law enforcement examples and exercises.
Note: IS-100.LEb is an updated version of the IS-100.LE course. If you have successfully completed IS-100.LE or 100.LEa, you may want to review the new version of the course. For credentialing purposes, the courses are equivalent.
Course Objectives:
At the completion of this course, you should be familiar with:
- ICS applications for law enforcement
- ICS organizational principles and elements
- ICS position and responsibilities
- ICS facilities and functions
- ICS planning.
In addition, you will learn the steps you should take to be accountable for your actions during an incident.
IS-100.LEB Answers
What type of command creates a single ICS structure with a built-in process for an effective and responsible multijurisdictional or multiagency approach?
A. Multiple Command
B. Area Command
C. Mutual Command
D. Unified Command
Which General Staff position manages costs related to the incident, and provides accounting, procurement, time recording, and cost analyses?
A. Finance/Administration Section Chief
B. Logistics Section Chief
C. Planning Section Chief
D. Operations Section Chief
You are a Group Supervisor working in a Branch within the Operations Section. Who is your immediate supervisor?
A. Branch Executive Officer
B. Branch Chief
C. Branch Director
D. Branch Leader
Which Section is responsible for providing communication planning and resources?
A. Finance/Administration Section
B. Operations Section
C. Logistics Section
D. Planning Section
You are working on editing and assembling the Incident Action Plan for the next operational period. Where are you working?
A. Operations Section
B. Logistics Section
C. Planning Section
D. Finance/Administration Section
You are working at establishing a computer network and communications support for incident personnel. Where are you working?
A. Operations Section
B. Planning Section
C. Finance/Administration Section
D. Logistics Section
The major activities of the Logistics Section include:
A. Setting up and maintaining incident facilities.
B. Preparing and documenting Incident Action Plans.
C. Compensating for injury or damage to property.
D. Developing plans for demobilization of resources.
When implemented properly, Unified Command:
A. Requires the establishment of separate Operations Sections comprised of responders from each jurisdiction or agency.
B. Involves the development of multiple Incident Action Plans under the direction of each Incident Commander.
C. Is managed away from the incident scene at an Emergency Operations Center or other facility.
D. Enables agencies with different legal, geographic, and functional responsibilities to coordinate, plan, and interact effectively.
Which of the following Sections is responsible for providing medical services to incident personnel?
A. Finance/Administration Section
B. Operations Section
C. Planning Section
D. Logistics Section
My Section supports the incident response by overseeing contracting for needed supplies and services that are not already available. Who am I?
A. Operations Section Chief
B. Planning Section Chief
C. Logistics Section Chief
D. Finance/Administration Section Chief
The Incident Command depends on me to make sure that all incident personnel have the supplies, equipment, and support they need. Who am I?
A. Operations Section Chief
B. Planning Section Chief
C. Finance/Administration Section Chief
D. Logistics Section Chief
Which Section is responsible for ensuring that incident personnel have needed transportation, supplies, and equipment?
A. Finance/Administration Section
B. Operations Section
C. Logistics Section
D. Planning Section
Incident Commanders within the Unified Command do all of the following, EXCEPT:
A. Work together to establish resource ordering procedures.
B. Concur on the selection of the General Staff Section Chiefs.
C. Communicate to make joint decisions and speak as one voice.
D. Form multiple command structures if disagreements arise.
Which individual or entity is responsible for conducting long-range and/or contingency planning?
A. Incident Commander
B. Planning Section
C. Agency Executive
D. Logistics Section
Within the Operations Section, a Director supervises each:
A. Unit.
B. Group.
C. Branch.
D. Division.
Which Section Chief is responsible for ensuring that assigned incident personnel are fed and have communications, medical support, and transportation as needed to meet the operational objectives?
A. Finance/Administration Section Chief
B. Logistics Section Chief
C. Planning Section Chief
D. Operations Section Chief
You are arranging for medical examinations for incident response personnel. Where are you working?
A. Operations Section
B. Logistics Section
C. Finance/Administration Section
D. Planning Section
Which Section Chief is responsible for recording personnel time, maintaining vendor contracts, administering compensation and claims, and conducting overall cost analysis for the incident?
A. Operations Section Chief
B. Planning Section Chief
C. Finance/Administration Section Chief
D. Logistics Section Chief
The Finance/Administration Section may staff four Units:
Procurement Unit
Cost Unit
Compensation/Claims Unit
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A. Documentation Unit
B. Medical Unit
C. Time Unit
D. Administration Unit
TRUE OR FALSE: Under a Unified Command, there are multiple Incident Commanders who work together to establish the incident objectives.
A. True
B. False
The major activities of the Finance/Administration Section include:
A. Setting up food services for responders.
B. Collecting and evaluating incident intelligence.
C. Maintaining documentation for reimbursements.
D. Developing plans for demobilization of resources.
What is the correct name of the ICS application used when there are multiple Incident Commanders, each representing a jurisdiction, agency, or department that has responsibility for some aspect of the incident?
A. Mutual Command
B. Unified Command
C. Area Command
D. Multiple Command
There is a need to organize Groups and Divisions to ensure appropriate levels of span of control. The Groups and Divisions can be organized into:
A. Units.
B. Companies.
C. Branches.
D. Regiments.
The Incident Commander depends on the Logistics Section Chief to:
A. Direct tactical activities to achieve the incident objectives.
B. Interface with representatives from assisting and coordinating agencies.
C. Provide facilities, services, and material support for the incident.
D. Develop the Incident Action Plan.
Which of the following Sections is responsible for providing communication planning and resources?
A. Finance/Administration Section
B. Logistics Section
C. Planning Section
D. Operations Section
Terms to Learn
b) Establishes common processes for planning and managing resources.
c) Allows for the integration of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications operating within a common organizational structure.
2.Communications and Information Management
3.Resource Management
4.Command and Management
5.Ongoing Management and Maintenance
b) procedures and protocols;
c) training and exercises;
d) personnel qualifications,
e) licensure, and certification; and
f) equipment certification.
b) reliability,
c) scalability, and
d) portability,
c) as well as the resiliency and redundancy of communications and information systems.
b) order and acquire,
c) mobilize,
d) track and report,
e )recover and demobilize,
f) reimburse, and
g) inventory resources
2 ) Multiagency Coordination Systems, and
3) Public Information.
2) Supporting Technologies
2) Multiagency Coordination Systems, and
3) Public Information.
b) Poor communication, due to both inefficient uses of available communications systems and conflicting codes and terminology.
c) Lack of an orderly, systematic planning process.
d) No common, flexible, predesigned management structure that enabled commanders to delegate responsibilities and manage workloads efficiently.
e) No predefined methods to integrate interagency requirements into the management structure and planning process effectively.
b) Have poor communications, due to both inefficient uses of available communications systems and conflicting codes and terminology.
c) Use unsystematic planning processes and fail to reach objectives.
d) Are unable to efficiently integrate responders into standard organizational structures and roles.
b) The achievement of response objectives.
c) The efficient use of resources.
2) Technological Hazards: Dam breaks, radiological or hazmat releases, power failures, or medical device defects.
3) Human-Caused Hazards: Criminal or terrorist acts, school violence, or other civil disturbances.
b) Do not use radio codes, agency-specific codes, acronyms, or jargon.
b) Avoids confusion by requiring that orders flow from supervisors.
b) Receive work assignments only from their ICS supervisors.
b) A jurisdiction or agency is legally required to take command.
c) The incident changes in complexity.
2.Incident Stabilization
3.Property Preservation
b) States the activities to be completed.
c) Covers a specified timeframe, called an operational period.
d) May be oral or written—except for hazardous materials incidents, which require a written IAP.
b) Is determined based on the incident objectives and resource requirements. Only those functions or positions necessary for a particular incident are filled.
c) Expands and contracts in a flexible manner. When needed, separate functional elements may be established.
d) Requires that each element have a person in charge.
b) Staging Area
c) Incident Base
d) Camp
e) Helibase
f) Helispot
b) Threats involving potential for violence.
c) Surveillance of disease outbreak.
d) Weather forecasts.
e) Structural plans and vulnerabilities.
b) Incident Action
c) Unity of Command
d) Span of Control
e) Resource Tracking
2) Operations
3) Planning
4) Logistics
5) Finance and Administration
2) Providing information services to internal and external stakeholders, such as disaster survivors, agency executives, and senior officials.
3) Establishing and maintaining liaison with other agencies participating in the incident.
2) Perform the incident command function in a relief capacity.
3) Represent an assisting agency that shares jurisdiction
2) Safety Officer
3) Liaison Officer
b) Organizes, assigns, and supervises the tactical response resources.
b) Strike Teams — Consist of all similar resources with common communications operating under the direct supervision of a Leader.
2) Divisions — Used to divide an incident geographically
b) Preparing and documenting Incident Action Plans.
c) Tracking resources assigned to the incident.
d) Maintaining incident documentation.
e) Developing plans for demobilization.
b) Situation Unit
c) Documentation Unit
d) Demobilization Unit
b) Providing communication planning and resources.
c) Setting up food services for responders.
d) Setting up and maintaining incident facilities.
e) Providing support transportation.
f) Providing medical services to incident personnel.
2) Ground Support Unit
3) Facilities Unit
4) Food Unit
5) Communications Unit
6) Medical Unit
b) Timekeeping.
c) Cost analysis.
d) Compensation for injury or damage to property.
e) Documentation for reimbursement (e.g., under mutual aid agreements and assistance agreements).
2) Cost Unit
3) Procurement Unit
4) Time Unit
b) A single set of incident objectives.
c) Collaborative strategies.
d) Improved internal and external information flow.
e) Less duplication of efforts.
f) Better resource utilization
b) Potential cost savings through agreements on cost sharing for essential services.
b) Collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information to support the establishment of a common operating picture.
c) Establishing priorities among incidents.
d) Resolving critical resource issues.
e) Facilitating logistics support and resource tracking.
f) Synchronizing public information messages to ensure everyone is speaking with one voice.
b) Staffed with personnel trained for and authorized to represent their agency/discipline.
c) Equipped with mechanisms for communicating with the incident site and obtaining resources and potential resources.
d) Managed through protocols.
e) Applicable at different levels of government.
b) Serves as the central point of contact for all news media. When possible, public information officials from all participating agencies should co-locate at the JIC.