ABSTRACT
Equally important as the role and responsibility of the commander are the location and administration of the command post. „is is the nerve center and heart of an emergency operation. How it is set up and run could well make the diœerence between the successful resolution of a terrorist criminal incident and a botched assignment. It should be noted that there are regional diœerences in terminology in referring to command posts. „ey have been variously referred to as mobilization points, forward posts, and temporary headquarters, with those terms being used more or less interchangeably in some areas and having separate and distinct meanings in other jurisdictions.
