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Oregon State Police outlines statewide disaster-response capabilities, dispatch redundancy and new agency operations center
Summary
The Oregon State Police told lawmakers it maintains redundant dispatch centers, an agency operations center with backup communications, specialized response teams and equipment, and can activate state-level command functions rapidly during large incidents, citing a December tsunami warning and extensive wildfire support as recent examples.
The Oregon State Police briefed the Senate Committee on Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs on its statewide emergency-response capabilities, redundancy in communications, and recent activations for large-scale incidents.
"The mission of the Oregon State Police (OSP) is to serve all people with priority of safeguarding life, property, and natural resources," Superintendent Casey Cotting told the committee. Cotting outlined OSP's role as the law enforcement representative in the state's emergency management framework (Emergency Support Function 13), its participation in interoperability and fusion-center bodies, and its statewide force structure.
OSP said its department…
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