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Committee on Public Safety
Committee on Public Safety
Chair: John Tarbert, transit police chief, Regional Transportation District, Denver
Vice Chair: Ronald Pavlik, chief, Metro Transit Police, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Washington, DC
APTA Staff Advisor: Randy S. Clarke, acting vice president, member services
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What is the committee’s role for APTA and the industry as a whole?
 The broad purpose of the Committee on Public Safety is to share information, resources and lessons learned that support and strengthen security of transit customers and our transit environments. The committee also focuses on emergency management practices to enable agencies to manage and respond to incidents effectively and efficiently.
| We also provide support for APTA’s Security Standards Program (a component of APTA’s Standards Development Program), which addresses security from multiple perspectives—cyber, risk and emergency management and infrastructure, just to name a few.
The committee’s special interests—which are of concern to all transit agencies—include intermodal law enforcement and security, emergency management coordination, liaison among transit and non-transit safety organizations, uniform policy and information reporting and exchange, state-of-the-art training programs and materials for committee members and our leadership role in the intermodal public safety profession.
The committee also works through two subcommittees: the Task Force on Technology and the Emergency Preparedness Task Force.
What are the committee’s top priorities for the year?
The committee’s Number One strategic priority is to share information and intelligence among agencies because no transit agency in our modern society operates in a silo. Any serious incident or event can affect all agencies in the same way. We’re also focused on developing and reviewing best practices and security standards.
Our ongoing priorities include planning and conducting our 2017 Security & Emergency Management Roundtable, improving coordination with the TSA, strengthening transit policing and operations, limiting “quality of life” crimes and reducing crime overall, staying on top of security technology and keeping track of R&D for safety and security systems.
We also work with the PT-ISAC (Public Transportation Information Sharing and Analysis Center), a clearinghouse that collects, analyzes and reports daily security and threat information from a vast number of sources to transit organizations and businesses, the intelligence community, military, law enforcement and elsewhere. APTA coordinates the activity and products of the PT-ISAC.
How does the committee engage members in those priorities?
The committee carries out its work in conference calls and at face-to-face meetings, including roundtables held at APTA’s Rail Conference to discuss the latest developments affecting transit. The roundtables provide a unique opportunity for all attendees to discuss resources, events and experiences from their respective organizations. The committee also discusses and supports technology-related issues with APTA’s cybersecurity standards working groups.
How does your committee encourage young professionals to participate in its work?
The committee represents an opportunity for young security professionals and emergency managers to learn about the issues while making real contributions to the industry’s overall safety and security.
Plus, it’s a great way for them to build or strengthen their professional network and really connect with experts in the safety and security community in the industry—and become expert themselves.
Please share how an individual’s service on this committee can add value to his or her career.
Engaging with this committee builds knowledge and expertise, even for our most experienced members, and offers so many ways to contribute—roundtable presentations, task force assignments, best practice discussions and standards development are just a few.
Because the committee interacts with so many other groups, including our federal partners at DOT and DHS, it can provide great exposure to other security experts—inside and outside of the industry.
Please describe the committee’s work to advance the goals in APTA’s strategic plan.
The committee directly supports APTA’s leading strategic goal: Safety and Security First. Basically, this means that we’re focused on helping to make a safe industry safer for our passengers, our employees, our infrastructure and our entire systems. We do this through helping to strengthen public safety cultures by being strong advocates for safety and security standards and best practices and engaging all stakeholders in these critically important initiatives.
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