Free Zombie CSU by Jonathan Maberry Page A

is because it is much easier to file an at-large arrest warrant for the individual and transmit his information to police agencies across the region using NCIC (National Crime Information Center) so that the combined weight of many agencies can be brought to bear on the suspect.”
    Joseph Sciscio, a detective with the Bensalem Township Police Department in Pennsylvania, adds: “Considering this is a small suburban town I would expect everyone from the chief on down to be involved along with the solicitation of other agencies including local sheriffs, surrounding jurisdictions, even fire, police and public works departments for less involved tasks of traffic control.”
    “If the search area is anywhere near a waterway,” adds Chief Ken Coluzzi of Lower Makefield Police in Pennsylvania, “then the marine search units will be called in as well as helicopters. The search will be expanded when additional help arrives. Additional personnel usually begin to arrive within ten minutes or so.”
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    Art of the Dead—Ryan Allen
     

     
    Help Is on the Way
     
“I think that fast zombies are a lot more scary and dangerous. But, I’m afraid that if zombies were real, they’d be slow. You have to consider that they’re rotting away. Having your meat and organs decaying into fetid pulp would really put a kink in your sprinting ability.”
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    McKinney says: “Let’s assume that this department is bringing all available resources to bear in this case. First off, the street officers responding to the scene will call in the suspect’s description and any other relevant pieces of information. A supervisor will almost certainly make the scene and will order officers in the area to set up a quadrant around the suspect’s probable location. In this case, officers will set up along the boundary of the forested land. The supervisor might order officers to park along the roadway next to the forest. Those officers would remain at their posts until dismissed by the supervisor. The supervisor will order his or her communications personnel to contact neighboring jurisdictions and the suspect’s information would be forwarded to them. They would be responsible for mobilizing their own response. Beyond that, the key concept here is officer safety. Unless the officers responded to the scene soon enough to see the suspect going into the forest, they would never blindly charge in after him. Witnesses may state that he is not armed, but suspects are always treated like they are. That’s just sound tactics.”
    Small towns, however, are not as isolated as they once were and help is often just a phone call away, as Michael E. Witzgall (a former member of Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance, who served with SWAT in Dallas, Texas, and now works as a tactical training consultant) points out: “Most small towns have inter-jurisdictional agreements of cooperation with neighboring cities. A request for help in the search would be sent out and those that could help would show up; however, due to manpower constraints and vicarious liability, many of those agreements are no longer observed. The requesting agency is in charge.”
    “A small town would be forced to call upon multiple outside resources,” agrees McKinney. “They may call upon the County Sheriff’s Office, who would be able to provide additional personnel, and possibly even a helicopter. If a helicopter were available, then that would become the primary search tool. It would search the area with heat-sensitive cameras, etc. 11 Another resource would be the state police. Troopers are generally in short supply, though. They respond to any agency requesting assistance, but it may take them several hours, at the earliest, to get any sort of presence in the area. If the search continues beyond a few hours, the state police would definitely have helicopters, dog teams, and professional trackers available. Still another resource would be the game warden and the Forestry Service. In most