USG OLYMPIC SITUATION BOARD LAW ENFORCEMENT ON

UNCLAS ROME 000311 SIPDIS STATE FOR DS/AS, DS/DSS, DS/EX, DS/IP, DS/P, DS/T/ATA, S/CT, EUR/EX, EUR/WE, FBI, DOD ROME FOR RSO, IMO ATHENS FOR RSO BEIJING FOR RSO E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ASEC KOLY IT AMGT OLYMPICS SUBJECT: USG OLYMPIC SITUATION BOARD LAW ENFORCEMENT ON LINE, TURIN ITALY ¶1. The Law Enforcement On-Line (LEO) provides a secure web- based crisis management software application known as the Virtual Command Center (VCC). The VCC provides a virtual information-sharing platform where by critical, time sensitive unclassified information may be disseminated both vertically throughout an organization and horizontally across agency boundaries to authorized agencies/members. The VCC facilitates joint, multi-agency operations by providing each participating agency/member with a common view of an event as well as an understanding of each of the participant's efforts in addressing the event. ¶2. The VCC is a web-based application which permits the various participating agencies/members to utilize the numerous application folders such as the VCCs Situation Board, maps, schedules, etc., from multiple, geographically dispersed locations via the Internet. ¶3. The LEO network system is only available to persons duly employed by a law enforcement, criminal justice or public safety agency/department and whose position requires secure communications with other agencies. The requesting agency/member must submit a LEO application and once approved, the requesting agency/member will receive a compact disc with the LEO application hardware for installation onto an Internet computer. ¶4. LEO Membership: Requesting agencies/members can obtain the LEO application and the necessary authority through the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 11255, Washington, D.C. 20535, Attn: Law Enforcement On-Line or through LEO Program Office, (202) 324-8833, (202) 324-3364, 888-334-4536 or leoprogramoffice@leo.gov. ¶5. For the purposes of authorizing access rights to the USG OSOC VCC and the sharing of unclassified information/intelligence transmitted from the Joint Operations Center (JOC)/Threat Integration Center (TIC),the following procedures are in place: ¶6. Upon obtaining a LEO membership account, the USG OSOC will be responsible for granting authority to any requesting agency/member to the OSOC VCC. Requesting agency/members are to submit their LEO authorized membership log-in name to the official JOC, Turin, Italy, email account, 06torino@leo.gov. The OSOC will review all applications for access and grant the necessary authority on a case-by-case basis, generally within the 24 hours of the submission of the original email request. ¶7. Should the agency/member have any difficulty signing on to the OSOC VCC, please contact the LEO help desk: *HELP DESK LINE FOR LEO, 24/7 OPERATIONS: -CALL (225)334-4536 -HIT THE NUMBER 1 ON THE KEY PAD -EXCLUSIVELY FOR OLYMPICS VCC ¶8. (The 06torino@leo.gov Internet email address is also the official email account for departments/agencies to submit unclassified law enforcement intelligence/information in SIPDIS support of the 2006 Olympic Joint Operations Center.) Spogli