R2014-85 LAW ENFORCEMENT MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT& EXISTENCE & FORMATION OF THE ILLINOIS LAW ENFORCEMENT ALARM SYSTEM

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Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Agreement Page 12 of 23 appropriate potential responding Signatory Public Agency responders, obtain commitments from such potential Signatory Public Agency responders that they will respond to the Mutual Aid request, identify those Signatory Public Agencies who will respond to the Mutual Aid request of the Requesting Public Agency, provide (LEAS' expertise, services and experience relative to issues associated with Mutual Aid deployments and continue to monitor the adequacy of the Mutual Aid response to be able to respond if the Requesting Public Agency determines more assistance is needed and review the sufficiency of the Mutual Aid response that was made. ILEAS may, in its discretion, establish an on site presence at the Mutual Aid site when the Requesting Public Agency or the Responding Public Agencies believe such presence is useful to the purposes and functions of ILEAS and/or the Requesting Public Agency or the Responding Public Agencies. 4. Additional Signatory Public Agency Provisions a. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees to maintain liability insurance with a Best's rated A- or better insurance company or a self insurance trust fund in the face or indemnity amount of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) which would provide, inter alia, liability coverage for any activities in which the Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA might engage under this LEMAA. b. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees to provide to ILEAS information about the equipment, resources and personnel of its Public Agency, jurisdictional and regional demographic information, contact information, National Incident Management Systems information and Reception Site Staging information which may be used by ILEAS to aid in ILEAS' support role under this LEMAA. The Executive Director of ILEAS shall prepare a document, which will be amended from time to time, which requests the information desired and send it to each Signatory Public Agency for completion and update. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees that ILEAS may distribute any information obtained by the Executive Director to any other Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA who may request such information for Mutual Aid purposes. C. Each Signatory Public Agency to this LEMAA agrees that it will not hold itself out as an agent of ILEAS or any Public Agency other than itself and will instruct each of its employees that they are not to hold themselves out as employees or agents of ILEAS or any