The SERT Team - elite state police team - is always on internal
police perimeter as they train for presidential details to secure areas -
this is their priority
The SERT team normally works with Secret Service to map out every
rooftop, vantage point, identify breaches of security and all possible
breach points. They will put snipers on multiple roofs even further
away than the PA Rally shooter's location.
Was there a break down in command center comms, or did they even have
a command center to coordinate communications between all agencies and
the Secret Service?
Inter-Agency Communications is always hard. Normally the local county
controller assigns a channel for state, county and local police to
communicate. When Feds get involved, they have their own system, making
it hard to communicate. The Secret Service operates on their own channel.
This resulted in mass confusion and virtually no comms with SS being live updated.
Would a potential comms solution include having extra radios for all to use - or a good command center listening to agency comms and reporting back to each other?...
Could delayed intel due to repeating information back across various
unrelated channels be the source of confusion and lack of pre-emptive
action?
In the end we need to understand why the
Elite SERT Team was not deployed in the inner perimeter for additional presidential protection.
Instead we need to ask why PA State Police Uniform Patrol officers were in the inner circle instead.
Was anyone listening to all the agency comms across various channels to ensure complete operational comms security?
Why were there no drones, helicopters and even high flight
surveillance at 30,000 ft. or higher with infrared imagery which would
have seen the shooter crawling up on roof?
