Bellevue City Comprehensive Emergency Management

Bellevue city is located to the east of King County in Washington State in the United States. The departments of this city offer several services including comprehensive emergency services for many people. A Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) is documentation that provides a guideline on coordination and general response to emergency services (Eburn, 2017). As in this context, the existence of a comprehensive emergency management plan is an indication that several sectors such as public health care are properly handled. The paper will exhaust the nature of Bellevue city emergency management plan, as well as its deficiencies, and the recommendations of some important elements to be included for proficiency.

For emergency services to work effectively in the city, the plan incorporates different Emergency Support Functions from departments that are considered critical. Such departments include transport department which offers transport services. For better mitigation in fire tragedies, the fire department has responsibilities in ensuring health care is provided for victims and offer rescue operations. The police department is also essential in ensuring there exists security; this is possible through the law enforcement role. The finance and human resource are important in the supply of resources that are used to offer emergency services. Proper communication is important in the accomplishment of several functions given to departments. The adoption of the "National Incident Management System" has made it easy for incidents to be prevented from taking place in Bellevue city (The City of Bellevue, 2013).

It can also be understood that the Bellevue city comprehensive emergency management plan has also factored in the need for the well-trained emergency management staff. They have been well educated and experienced in various matters touching on the handling of diverse types of hazards, ranging from the fire, car accident, floods, and electric complications in various parts of the city (Ward, 2017). They all have a comprehensive network where they shall have the capability to handle various emergencies, in the coordination, as they occur. Also, the staff coordinates with the emergency management staff of the jurisdiction who provide adequate research, planning, and best practices for an all-round comprehensive management plan.

The plan also has various Emergency Management Functions with their respective tasks which analyze different emergency functions. They specify their tasks to be done, the ones to undertake them, and the number of agencies to deal with them. However, the Bellevue city needs put into considerations some factors that will act as the improvements for its comprehensive and effective functioning in the long run (Ward, 2017). One of them is the factor of the dealership with the emergencies amongst the people from all social and economic classes and status. It can be seen that there are no well-set structures for dealing with the emergencies affecting the poor people, which leads to the skewed and selective rescue and emergency services to the people in the society, including the poor people in the remote areas. Besides, the factor of the emergency services for the electromagnetic pulses has not been well addressed, which means that the effects of the electromagnetic radiations from the nuclear explosions might not be effectively handled among the residents. The city plan stakeholders should thus factor in the emergency services for nuclear rays which are stray and affects the livelihoods of the people.

Conclusion

In summary, the involvement of departments in handling different emergencies has been important in ensuring continuity in the city's projects. Proper communication has been important in keeping all responsible bodies active. The Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan has been beneficial in recovering what is lost through tragedies. The community is an important consideration in this plan; through the community, the causes are identified and addressed before an accident takes place (Ward, 2017). It is evident where the community development department has a role in serving "as a liaison between businesses and local, state and federal entities (The City of Bellevue, 2013)."

References

Eburn, M. (2017). (Rep.). Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep04119

The City of Bellevue. (2013) Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Retrieved from https://bellevuewa.gov/sites/default/files/media/pdf_document/CEMP_Annexes_2013.pdf

Ward, F. (2013). Health Care: Perspectives from the Street Level. In The Door of Last Resort: Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner (pp. 25-63). Rutgers University Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhzx4.5