What does NH Homeland Security and Emergency Management do?
NH&EM combines the traditional emergency management roles of planning for natural and manmade disasters with protecting the state against terrorism. In many ways it mirrors the activities of the federal Department of Homeland Security. The agency director is the state’s designated contact with DHS and is the conduit through which information on potential security threats are conveyed from the federal to the state government. Combining the state’s homeland security functions with emergency management was done through legislation passed in 2006. The agency was created in 1950 as the NH Civil Defense Agency. It became the Office of Emergency Management in 1982 and became part of the Department of Safety in 2002.
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