The Southeastern Pennsylvania Regional Counterterrorism Task Force (SECTTF) is one of nine Task Forces in Pennsylvania. The SECTTF was established in 1998 in response to a growing awareness to the threat of terrorist activity. The SECTTF is comprised of the City of Philadelphia and the Counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery. The Task Force is led by the Executive Board consisting of the Emergency Management Coordinators of the five member political subdivisions.

Roam Secure helped SECTFF build and deploy a regional, interoperable, alert and information sharing system built on the Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN^™) and Roam Secure Emergency Information Exchange (RSIX). Each jurisdiction uses their own fully redundant RSAN system to communicate with first responders and key officials during routine incidents, while the Roam Secure Emergency Information Exchange (RSIX) ties all the jurisdictions together into a seamless, real-time, secure, interoperable, information sharing, and emergency communication network. The system enables routine and all-hazards communication among 25,000 first responders, emergency managers and key government officials across the region.

“The greater Philadelphia region is a strategic area between Washington, D.C. and New York,” said Frank Punzo, Deputy Commissioner of Communications for the City of Philadelphia. “We have nuclear facilities, major refineries, waterways, ports, roadways and other critical infrastructure. It is absolutely essential that organizations at the federal/state/county and municipal levels are coordinated with regard to first response. With RSAN as our messaging platform, and the interoperability provided by RSIX we have the capability to facilitate a large scale response on a region-wide basis.”

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Map of SECTFF Region