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Chief Petty Officer Bouchard, officer-in-charge at Coast Guard Station Rochester, N.Y., Officer B. Melos, a police officer for the Rochester Police Department and John Cullati, from the Mt. Pleasant Fire Department, all players in the Northern Border Initiative exercise, discuss operations at their incident command post located at Coast Guard Station Rochester, N.Y., Aug. 15, 2014. The Northern Border Initiative exercise had 500 participants from 20 agencies and was conducted out of five seperate locations including Grand Island, Buffalo, Youngstown, Rochester and Oswego, N.Y. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Levi Read |
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Officer B. Melos, a police officer for the Rochester Police Department, and John Cullati, from the Mt. Pleasant Fire Department, both part of the Northern Border Initiative exercise, discuss operations at their incident command post located at Coast Guard Station Rochester, N.Y., Aug. 15, 2014. The Northern Border Initiative exercise had 500 participants from 20 agencies and was conducted out of five seperate locations including Grand Island, Buffalo, Youngstown, Rochester and Oswego, N.Y. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Levi Read |
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Chief Petty Officer Bouchard, officer-in-charge at Coast Guard Station Rochester, N.Y., discusses radio communication channels with a New York State Military Emergency Boat Service boat crew during a Northern Border Initiative exercise held at the incident command post located at Coast Guard Station Rochester, Aug. 15, 2014. The Northern Border Initiative exercise had 500 participants from 20 agencies and was conducted out of five seperate locations including Grand Island, Buffalo, Youngstown, Rochester and Oswego, N.Y. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Levi Read |
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard participated in a multi-agency Northern Border Initiative exercise to strengthen inter-agency security partnerships in five New York locations, Thursday and Friday.
Approximately 500 people from 20 Federal, State and local agencies, as well as cross-border partners in Canada participated in the exercise.
Capt. Brian Roche, commander of Coast Guard Sector Buffalo, served as lead federal official in the exercise, which was organized by the Monroe County Emergency Management Office. The exercise offered an opportunity to test and develop multi-agency response capabilities, including coordination of surveillance resources and the tactical deployment of forces to counter a security threat.
The Northern Boarder Initiative exercise took place in the major waterways near Buffalo, Niagara, Oswego, and Rochester, New York. The incident command post for the exercise was located in Grand Island, New York.