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Managing risk at the Tucson sector of the U.S. Border Patrol

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Levine, E. S.
Managing risk at the Tucson sector of the U.S. Border Patrol / E. S. Levine, Julie F. Waters
Sumario: This article describes a risk analysis used to inform resource allocation at the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, the busiest sector for alien and drug trafficking along the Southwest land border with Mexico. The model and methodology that underlie this analysis are generally applicable to many resource allocation decisions regarding the management of frequently occurring hazards, decisions regularly made by officials at all levels of the homeland security enterprise. The analysis was executed by agents without previous risk expertise working under a short time frame, and the findings from the analysis were used to inform several resource allocation decisions
En: Risk analysis : an international journal. - McLean, Virginia : Society for Risk Analysis, 1987-2015 = ISSN 0272-4332. - 01/07/2013 Volumen 33 Número 7 - julio 2013
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