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Mr. Don McCory serves as the Coordinator for the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security (MOHS) Task Force III (TF III). Contracted by the City of Hattiesburg, his office is located inside the Hattiesburg Police Department. MOHS has the state divided into three sections and ours, Task Force III, covers all counties south of Highway 84 to the Gulf Coast.
The duties of Mr. McCory include: coordinating the recruiting of local responders from police and fire departments and Emergency Management Agencies; coordinating the training opportunities for these responders and their reimbursement fees, when applicable; coordinating the credentialing and credentialing updates for all Homeland Security responders in Task Force III; assisting other MOHS staffers in the development of MOHS exercises, policies, and procedures; assisting all Task Force agencies with their Bi-Annual Strategic Implementation Report, which is a financial report of Homeland Security funds and expenditures and assisting all Task Force agencies with their yearly National Incident Management System (NIMS) reporting.
Additionally, Mr. McCory not only works with other MOHS staffers to inventory all equipment purchased with MOHS funds for local agencies, but he also works closely with the Task Force III leader, Robert Pickering of the Hattiesburg Fire Department and the three Regional Response Team leaders on all Homeland Security issues.
Mr. Don McCory
