Operable Communications
Operable Communications :
Agencies must be operable, meaning they must have sufficient public safety and service agency communications capabilities to meet their everyday internal requirements before they place value on being interoperable, meaning being able to work with other disciplines and agencies. They need to improve those systems first but this improvement planning needs to include a vision for improved interoperability with other disciplines and agencies. At a time when more attention is being paid to interoperability among different disciplines and jurisdictions within the community, there still exists fundamental communication deficiencies within disciplines and jurisdictions as practitioners strive to perform the most routine and basic elements of their job functions. (DHS, TCL, 2007, p. 39)
