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Un incidente se puede configurar y lanzar a usuarios profesionales en solo unos minutos. El NCI tendrá una página de inicio "siempre activa" a la que los profesionales registrados pueden acceder en cualquier momento.

Cuando ocurre un incidente, los profesionales pueden iniciar sesión inmediatamente, responder algunas preguntas sobre la ubicación y el tipo de incidente, y lanzar el incidente para que lo utilicen otros profesionales directamente a través de la aplicación. Si el creador del incidente necesita lanzar un sitio web de cara al público, hay algunos pasos adicionales con respecto a la configuración y aprobación, pero todo esto se hace a nivel local.

Si el equipo de respuesta ha preparado y practicado roles y responsabilidades, todo esto se puede hacer muy rápidamente. También se puede configurar un incidente antes de un evento, como un huracán inminente.

Los mensajes a las partes interesadas profesionales, e incluso al público, se pueden distribuir con anticipación.

La División de Asistencia Analítica y de Casos de NamUs utiliza bases de datos de justicia penal no gubernamentales y técnicas de búsqueda avanzadas para proporcionar a las agencias de justicia penal indicios de vida de las personas reportadas como desaparecidas a NamUs, información de contacto de miembros de la familia para la recolección de muestras de ADN, información sobre familiares más cercanos para notificaciones de muerte , pistas relacionadas con casos de personas no identificadas e información para ayudar en la investigación.

A beta testing site for designated professional stakeholders of NCI will be launched in calendar year 2020, and a full launch will follow, pending outcomes of the beta testing. Work is currently underway to fill state and regional NCI cabinet members, and these seated members will be among the designated stakeholders for beta testing.

A 24-7 training and practice site will be available for agencies to create scenarios, assign appropriate access levels, and work through incidents of varied size and complexity. Agencies can apply and adapt NCI for whatever events are likely for their particular area. Using NCI as part of regular exercises will enhance user confidence and help shape response to future events. This will also help agencies meet grant requirements and ease the mind of constituents by demonstrating that responders prepared for incidents and potential problems.

Any NCI registered professional user will be able create incidents in the system and can use NCI to manage incidents in any way that conforms to his/her established Incident Management System.

An incident can be set up and launched to professional users in just a few minutes.

NCI will have an “always on” landing page that registered professionals can access at any time. When an incident occurs, professionals can immediately log in, answer a few questions regarding location and type of incident, and launch the incident for use by fellow professionals directly through the application.

If the incident creator needs to launch a public-facing website, there are a few additional steps regarding configuration and approval, but that is all done at the local level. If the response team has prepared and practiced roles and responsibilities, this can all be done very quickly.

An incident can also be set up in anticipation of an event, such as an impending hurricane. Messaging to professional stakeholders, and even the public, can be circulated in advance.

Critical incidents are typically abrupt, catastrophic events that fall outside the scope of daily experiences and operations, such as accidents, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and disease outbreaks. The immediate and often overwhelming effects of critical incidents are felt across the public sector and wide spectrum of professional responders, driving a need for surge capacity and rallying of resources. Frequently, critical incidents are confounded by confusion, chaos and miscommunication. Reporting of those whose status is unknown, often called unaccounted-for in disasters, as well as those that are accounted for and/or safe, can happen multiple times for the same person in multiple systems, increasing the complexity. Compounding these challenges is the lack of a secure, centralized, online tool for consolidating and sharing information during such events.

NamUs for Critical Incidents is a technology tool currently in development which will:

• Connect law enforcement, medicolegal and emergency management professionals, as well as victims and families during a critical incident.
• Provide real-time information about incidents.
• Help manage, account for, and identify victims of critical incidents.
• Support preparedness through a robust training and exercise site.

Inaccurate and fluctuating victim reporting is a repeating theme in almost every disaster across the country. Compounding these challenges has always been the lack of a single secure, centralized, online tool for consolidating and sharing information during such events. NCI will fill this need by becoming an informational bridge.

For over a decade, the National Institute of Justice's NamUs program has provided technology, forensic services, and investigative support to resolve missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases, while connecting law enforcement, medical examiners, coroners, and other allied forensic specialists across the nation. It became apparent to NamUs leadership that the NamUs 2.0 technology, as well as the existing network of relationships and experience managing and resolving long-term missing and unidentified person cases, could be leveraged to build a new, scalable online system for similar accounting during critical incidents, but in real time.

Like the NamUs 2.0 application, NCI will have no set-up costs, and be a free resource for all U.S. agencies, including small municipalities. There will be no need for installation or new hardware. Information will be secured by professional vetting and sponsorships, usernames and passwords, and “need-to-know” tiered access. Since NCI will be instantly available nationwide, there will be no lag-time between when an incident occurs and when local responders can launch an incident.