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The West Columbia Police Department has several members who are serving on the Midlands Type 3 Incident Management Team.  The team serves 11 counties in the Midlands and will be activated whenever a major incident or large scale event occurs that taxes the resources of local government. 

There are four type 3 incident management teams in South Carolina.  They are the : Upstate Team, Pee Dee Team, Low Country Team and the Midlands Team. The Midlands team will serve Kershaw, Fairfield, Richland, Lexington, Newberry, Saluda, McCormick, Edgefield, Aiken, Barnwell and Allendale counties.

The team will consist of 32 members, each of whom will be trained in an incident command specialty.  Currently serving on the team from West Columbia are Seth Zeigler (Liaison Officer), Scott Morrison (Incident Commander), Brandon Field (Operations Section Chief), John Norman (Operations Section Chief), James Sullivan (Logistics/Plans Sections Chief), Robert McIntyre (Liaison Officer/Logistics Section Chief), and Jackie Brothers (PIO/Finance Section Chief).

Team members will receive grant funded training and job shadowing to allow them to become proficient at managing large scale incidents whether they be weather related, natural or manmade disaster, or special events.

The first event involving West Columbia team members was the recent visit to the Midlands by Vice-President Joe Biden on July 22-23rd.  The event required multi-jurisdictional efforts involving hundreds of officers, several departments and other resources such as EMS. 

Team members in front of Air Force Two for the Columbia visit of Vice-President Joe Biden.

West Columbia Officers Participate on Midlands Incident Management Team

Date: 10/12/2010