Responding to Mutual Aid Clause Samples

Responding to Mutual Aid. A Provider participant may provide assistance or aid to a Requestor participant subject to the following: (1) The Provider participant may withhold resources the Provider participant determines to be necessary to provide for the Provider participant's own protection. (2) Personnel of the Provider participant shall continue under the personnel's local command and control structure, but shall be under the operational control of the appropriate officials within the incident management system of the Requesting participant. (3) Law enforcement officers rendering assistance or aid under this section have the same powers and duties as law enforcement officers of the Requesting participant, but only for the period the law enforcement officers are engaged in activities authorized by the Requesting participant, and are subject to the law as if the law enforcement officers were providing services within the law enforcement officer's own jurisdiction.