The Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group (also known as T.E.W, or T.E.W.G) was designed by LT John Sullivan. It provides local responders and community leaders with information on the current threat and future prevention.
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TEW Mission
Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Groups constitute a multilateral, multidisciplinary, networked effort. Each individual TEW shares the following attributes:
Collectively individual TEWs form a node in the TEW network. The overaching mission for individual TEWs and the collective network follows:
Overarching TEW Mission
To develop operational intelligence for area of operations, and contribute to the co-production of intelligence across the TEW and intelligence fusion community in order to prevent, counter and respond to terrorism,violenceand social vices causing threats by conducting indications and warning and operational net assessment.
(Source: National TEW Resource Center, FEB 2006)
Sharing Intelligence
The 9/11 Commission Report illustrated some shortcomings in intelligence sharing. The TEW's are examples of state and local efforts that provide a mechanism for the collection, analysis and sharing of information. As the National Terrorism Early Warning Integration Center is being stood up in Los Angeles new ideas in intelligence collection analysis and sharing are being developed at the Federal level in the form of an Intellipedia, and at the local levels in their own wiki as well. The Wiki is the perfect platform, offering the tracking of information change, easy hyper liking and searching, document repository and retrieval and open access within the parameters set by the administration.
DHS Links
TEW BRIEFdead link - “...The Department of Homeland Security will vigorously pursue our detection and prevention mission. . .Today we are significantly safer because, as a Nation, we are more aware of the threat of terrorism and more vigilant about confronting it.”
Secretary Tom Ridge Department of Homeland Security
Homeland Security Advisory Council and Lessons Learned
House Testimony
8/2/2006 United States House of Representatives Leroy D. Baca, Sheriff
Intel Sites
GroupIntel
TEW Mailing List
TEW Websites
Northeast Ohio TEWG
KC TEW
Oklahoma Region 7 TEW
New Orleans TEW
Hamilton County Homeland Security TEWG
East Bay TEWG
Grant information
DHS Grants and Training