ABSTRACT
Hot Zones Hot zones, identi›ed by hot spot mapping technologies, are areas whose level of serious crime is substantially higher than the surrounding community. ey are conceived as areas absent adequate levels of security and in which the primary purpose of the police will be to establish security. Hot zones are where the greatest number of oŸcers are concentrated. In the model developed herein, hot zones will have their own command, formed to work in conjunction with the department’s serious crimes (or other local designation) command. Importantly, all zones-hot, at-risk, and safe-will receive staŸng from responders, who will handle misdemeanor calls, public service calls, and isolated serious calls. Hot zones will be staed by operators. e term, adapted from military special forces, refers herein to their motivation, intelligence, training, and adaptability. Operators are deployed as squads or split-squads. (A split-squad is one in which an operator squad may be halved to respond to two separate simultaneous problems, if a tactical need arises.) Operator squads are provided latitude to determine the immediate operational form of interdiction, prevention, and suppression objectives and to change an operational deployment should local information warrant a rapid change. However, all actions must always be in support of strategic goals and will be command reviewable.
