Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are formal, written guidelines or instructions for incident response that typically have both operational and technical components. The resources provided in this section will guide you through how to build SOPs to help coordinate incident response.

• Creating a Charter for a Multi-Agency Communications Interoperability Committee: Template and Questions to Consider (.pdf, 766.41 KB) (2015) (*)
  Provides guidance for developing charter documents for multi-agency communications interoperability committees.
• Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) Package (.pdf, 749.95 KB) (2020) (*)
  The National Council of Statewide Interoperability Coordinators (NCSWIC) Planning, Training, and Exercise (PTE) Committee developed an EMAC Package to share best practices and templates to support the public safety community when submitting communications-specific EMAC requests.

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