Pick one answer to reply to as your main post response, and then reply to 2 classmates who answered the other question.

2. An example of a successful community partnership is the "Business Partners Against Terrorism" (BPAT) program developed by the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office. Review the BPAT video and offer the following:What are the essential ingredients which have led to the success of the BPAT program? Conversely, what deficiencies do you feel are present or could develop in the future?

Be sure and support your responses from the assigned readings as well as other applicable sources. Additional resources regarding BPAT program are attached.

Forum Grading Rubric: Answers the forum question(s) with a relevant, coherent and scholarly initial forum response (>250 words) 20/20; demonstrates lesson comprehension in forums with no more than 10% of content as direct quotes 15/15; employs complete and proper APA in-text parenthetical citations of the required readings for this week 10/10; responses to two classmates initial forum answers (>100 words each) 20/20; quality answer to professor follow-up question 20/20, main forum has APA reference list at end of forum (including the required readings) 5/5; reads and acknowledges professors end of week wrap up forum 10/10.

Note: your primary forum post answering the assigned question for the week is due on Thursday by 1155PM EST, and per the syllabus you can lose up to 5 points per day for late work.

Instructions: Craft your main forum answer is like a short paper directly answering the topic of the week with a well written response that fully utilizes the required readings for the week with at least 250 words. Focus only on the assigned question(s) in a scholarly manner using in-text citations from the required readings (save your personal experiences and opinions for your four forum replies in any given week). Each sentence quoting or paraphrasing any ideas or information from any source must be cited properly including the author and year of publication. Do not cite the APUS lessons — they are just basic information to start the week off and is not meant to be a primary source for you to reference in your reply (to receive full credit you must utilize and cite the listed required readings for that week). If directly quoting from the readings (or other scholarly sources), you must also include the page or paragraph number that you are quoting from like (Hoffman, 2006, p.7) or for articles and sources without pages (Renner, 2016, para.15). If you are directly quoting and there is no page number to cite, then you manually count the paragraphs and cite that number. You also need to have an APA style reference list at the end of your post listing the sources employed. For more on APA citations and reference lists see the APUS Style Guide for APA. You must first provide your own initial forum answer before replying to any classmates or the professor. The four replies of the week are more of a free flowing classroom discussion which offers you an opportunity to leverage your relevant personal experiences and express your thoughts and opinions. Respond to at least two other students initial forum answers with a minimum of 100 words each. In your replies to classmates you may offer your opinion on the topic of the week, substantially support or supplement another student’s answer, or even politely disagree with or challenge their forum answer (but do not ask your classmates questions, or do so only as a last resort per the forum philosophy). You will also reply to my follow up question in your own forum string, and also read and acknowledge the Professor wrap up forum I post toward the end of the week. Also, do not be afraid to respectfully disagree with the readings or a classmate where you feel appropriate; as this should be part of your analysis process and employing critical thinking and academic freedom. Forum posts are graded based on demonstrated knowledge of the lesson and weekly readings, relevance, timeliness, as well as clarity and quality of analysis and synthesis. Sources utilized to support answers are to come from the weekly readings, but other credible and scholarly sources may be used to supplement (but not replace) the assigned readings. However, dictionaries, encyclopedias and Wikipedia are not scholarly and are not acceptable sources in college level work. Do not use non-scholarly open websites as sources for your reply to the main forum answer. All forum work must be completed within the academic week. When replying to the main forum answer make sure to include your name in the "topic title" of your initial forum answer/response.

Student replies 100 each

Student #1 Heath

. On page 21 of the BENS Issue Paper, Private Partnerships, Public Safety, six key takeaways are offered regarding what is needed to develop purposeful public-private partnerships. For this discussion, select one of these to focus upon, its potential impact upon homeland security, and how it could be positively addressed at the federal, state or local level.

Private sector partners must overcome the misperceptions that the government is intentionally or needlessly holding back information. This can be accomplished through a better understanding of public safety entities’ structure or authorities (BENS, 2016)

One of the most aggravating thing I have experienced in my military career was sitting at a checkpoint in the middle of Iraq with almost zero vehicles coming through. I felt like my time and energy was being wasted, at the time I had no idea that I was part of a much bigger operation that was targeting a high valued target.In the same way the private-public partnership can leave the private sector feeling left out.To this end, the DHS and other intelligence and law enforcement partners must communicate with the private sector in such a way that they are getting the information that they need (DHS, 2013).

There needs to be an understanding on the private sector side that the information being shared with them is as much as possible given problems such as the needs of secrecy to protect assets that provide information.To this end, the private-public relationship needs to come to an agreement with what information is needed form the public sector (BENS, 2016)This will also allow for communication between the private-public sectors, this communication will serve to bring a closer relationship and understanding of each other.Once there is an understanding of how the government agencies operate, the private sector partners will begin to operate on the information that they are receiving knowing that it is good information.This will happen do to the fact that they trust their public sector counter parts.

As with any relationship, communication is key to how the well the relationship will work.It is up to both the public and private sectors to communicate openly with each other. This will bring a closer relationship that will benefit both.

References:

Business Executives for National Security. (2016). BENS Issue Paper: Private Partnerships, Public Safety.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (2013). National infrastructure protection plan. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 10-12, 35-50.

Student #2 Trendell

In the Bens Issue Paper, Private Partnerships, Public Saftey, it is identified that private and public partnerships need to “overcome misconception” that the government is withholding information (p. 21, 2016). It is an assumption that if misconceptions between private and public partnerships are due to lack of communication which results in a lack of trust in government. Communication limits the effectiveness of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ability to remain flexible and adaptable as DHS relies on partnerships to facilitate a network that is interoperable community (DHS, p. 31, 2014).

The 2014 DHS Quadrennial Homeland Security Review notes that “aligning interests and identifying outcomes” between private and public entities (p.57., 2014). Developing a unity of effort between private-public safety and security partnerships will ensure a unity of effort is developed to ensure that an result or common goal is achieved. The common interest will ensure that duplicating efforts related to the partnership using a Memorandum of Agreement, Mutal of Understanding, or plan outlines capabilities or shortfalls further enhancing communication between entities. Additional benefits of enhanced communication will identify safety and security areas that are in need of investment while also reducing redundancies in processes or work.

From 2013-2017 Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), improved communication, dissolved misconceptions, and improved unity of effort by Private Partners that offered additional services in support to CBP. CBP gave reimbursements for those services which resulted in improved CBP practices, traffic flow, and increased inspections (GAO, 2018). The result of Private-Public communication allowed for safety and security to improve furthering the government and private enterprise resiliency.

Work Cited

Department of Homeland Security. (2014). The 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Report. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office.https://edge.apus.edu/access/content/group/securit…

Government Accountability Office (2018), U.S. PORTS OF ENTRY CBP Public-Private Partnership Programs Have Benefits, but CBP Could Strengthen Evaluation Efforts https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/690692.pdf

Bens Issue.org (2016)., ,Private-Public Partnership https://www.bens.org/file/PrivatePartnerships_Publ…