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Hazardous Materials Response Team Unit Operational Response Section

Hazardous Materials Response Team Unit Operational Response Section. Our Mission. HM Units provides technical and scientific support to FBI investigations involving hazardous materials, including Weapons of Mass Destruction. Hazardous Materials Response Team Unit

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Hazardous Materials Response Team Unit Operational Response Section

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  1. Hazardous Materials Response Team UnitOperationalResponseSection

  2. Our Mission HM Units provides technical and scientific support to FBI investigations involving hazardous materials, including Weapons of Mass Destruction • Hazardous Materials Response Team Unit • Hazardous Materials Science Response Unit • Hazardous Materials Operations Unit

  3. Support to FBI Investigations • WMD Threat assessment • Scientific or technical assessment • Hazmat crime scene management • Hazard risk assessment • Site safety and medical support • Incident Command support • Evidence collection • Decontamination • Chemical, biological, radiological • Hazardous evidence transportation • Domestic and international missions

  4. FBI Responsibilities • Identify, detect, deter and disrupt terrorist operations before they occur • Primary jurisdiction to investigate, apprehend and bring to prosecution those responsible for acts of terrorism • WMD Crime Scene Operations • WMD Forensics • Render Safe Operations • Terrorism Investigations

  5. Hazardous Materials Response Teams • 28 Teams • Respond to incidents with support of HMRU • Collateral duty – SA’s, Task Force Officers including JTTF, professional support staff

  6. Hazardous Materials Response Teams • Initial assessment • Identify, preserve, document, and collect evidence in a hazardous environment

  7. Evidence Recovery Effective laboratory analysis depends on Recognition Recovery Packaging Documentation

  8. Quality Control • Avoid cross-contamination • Do not re-use sterile equipment or supplies • Change gloves between each sample • Control Blanks • Always include for every lot number • Control Samples • Uncontaminated environmental samples

  9. WMD Coordinators • Liaison with Federal, State, and local response agencies • Conduit to FBIHQ for technical information, advice, and assistance • Pre-Event Planning and Prevention • At least one WMD Coordinator in each office • Contacted by State and local Emergency Responders for WMD threat or incident

  10. SSA Lisa J. Ference Lisa.Ference@IC.FBI.gov

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