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profit sectors to coordinate complex re- sponses to emergencies and disasters .
New York City Emergency
Man-
agement
• Excellence in Homeland Security
New York City Emergency
Manage- ment (
NYCEM ), is under the guidance of
Commissioner Deanne
Criswell , a for- mer
FEMA official and head of OEM for the city of Aurora ,
CO , who is
respon- sible for oversight and development of the city ' s emergency management plans .
The agency also developed and runs the Notify
NYC emergency alert pro- gram about emergencies and
events happening in their neighborhoods , and is the administrator of New York City '
s Community Emergency
Response
Teams ( CERT
).
Lastly
NYCEM also maintains the
Citywide Incident Management
Sys- tem which is based on the National In- cident Management System .
NYCEM regularly tests plans by con- ducting drills and exercises , and re- sponds to emergencies to ensure that other agencies not only follow these plans , but to foster
communication amongst the responding agencies
.
NYCEM also operates the city ' s Emer- gency Operations Center (
EOC )
where city , state and federal agencies join
representatives from the private and non-
Deanne Criswell , Commissioner of NYCEM
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