mr. bouchard and mr. demmings. >> thank you, congressman. that's a very good question.if we do interact and work extremely well with our federall partners but the communication is assailant point we have raised for a number of years. in fact on many of the conference calls the preamble is probably heard more about this incident in the news that we'll talk about today. most of us, i presume, have a top secret clearance sitting ato this table, if not at least secret, and there's a need for real-time information sharing on that capability. that is not in place. years ago, probably a decade ago issue suggested they create such a platform, and an increpted cell phone was created as such and i paid for it from my homeland security division chief and myself and we had a five ol' them. lo and behold we find out they don't work so they don't have the ability to communicate real-time. we have to goo back to the days of runners. >> you're talking more about equipment. i'm talking about personal relationships do you have a chance to interact and develop

mr. bouchard and mr.. congressman that's a good question. we do interact and work extremely well with our federal partners but the communication is a salient point that we raised for a number of years. on many conference calls, we probably heard more about this incident than the news we're going to talk about today. you know, most of us i presume have top secret clearance sitting at this top, if not at least secret and there's a need for realtime information sharing on that capability. that's not in place. years ago, probably a decade ago i suggested they create such a platform. encrypted cell phone was created as such and i paid for it from my homeland security division chief. lo and behold found out they don't really work. >> so we don't have a device to communicate realtime. we almost have to go back to the days of runners where somebody has to go. >> you're talking about equipment. i'm talking about personal relationships. do y'all have a chance to interact and develop personal relationships so you kn

mr. bouchard and mr. acevedo, what is the biggest problem that you see with respect to information sharing? one of the things i see first and foremost, how long it takes to get a background check done for someone joining the task force which is maddening but what else do you see that we can work on and perhaps mr. miller can comment on ways we can fix it. the mou system seems to be one of them. maybe using the model new york is trying to implement nationwide might be something that could help for us. but i would like to hear from mr. demings first if i may. >> i will say that we enjoy a pretty good relationship with our federal authorities in the metropolitan and orlando area because of what we have in terms of the theme parks, we have federal agents who are embedded within our theme parks so that forces us to communicate i believe there's still room for improvement, however. the situation i talked about earlier in which a law enforcement officer stopped someone on the streets of our nation when they do a

mr. bouchard and mr. demings. >> that's a very good question.act and work extremely with our federal partners. but the communication is a salient part. in many of the conference calls, the preamble, you probably already heard more about this in the news than we're going to talk about today. most of us i presume has a top secret clearance at this table. if not at least secret. and there is a need for real-time information sharing on that capability. that's not in place. years ago -- probably a decade ago i suggested they create such a platform. an en crypted cell phone was created. we had a few of them. lo and me hold, they don't really work. we no longer have a device to communicate real-time on a direct pressing need. we almost have to go back to the days of runners where somebody -- >> you're talking more about equipment. i'm talking about personal relationships. do you have a chance to direct personal relationships so you know bob orr whoever at the fbi. >> yes. >> do you have a chance to do that? >> we do. we do. and we have great relationsh

mr. bouchard and mr. demings the same question. do we need more resources? fusion centers. michigan and florida. >> yes. i think nationwide, the fusion centers are in need of resources. because while all this has been going on, the country has gone thank you recession and that affected all the police agencies in terms of their budgets and personnel. i cut 165 positions during the downturn. which i don't have back. i have to pull someone out of our budget and out of our deployment and put them into the fusion central. it would be helpful if there was a way to original a combined platform, if they're going to be ascened to a federal join terrorism or joint effort, there could be some funding that would be able to add to the interaction and grow it. even i find it challenging because we're asked to be jttf, asked to be an identity theft, the secret service, a fugitive with the u.s. marshal. >> allow no get mr. demmings. my support to you for what your community experienced and what you need in a fusion center to gather the intelligence that you need. >> the fusion centers, the

bouchard from the oakland county sheriff's office in oakland county, michigan. next we have sheriff jerry from the orange county sheriff's office in orange county, florida. finally mrmmissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism at the new york city police department. i want to thank all of you for being here and particularly mr. miller that know is very busy with the work and task at hand back home in new york. thanks to all of you for being here and i would like to recognize chief acevedo for the opening statement. >> good morning chairman mccaul and members of the committee. i come here today as the first vice president and that's 68 of the largest cities in the united states and chairman of the homeland security committee. i want to thank you mr. chairman and the committee for the outstanding leadership and the work in this vital area at a time that i think that the threat not only continues toex pand but the consequences of terrorism are hitting the communities everyday. i can tell you that the one thing that keeps us all up is the issue of the lone wolf. we have been talking about that for several years now, but in the last several days we have seen the co

mr. bouchard and mr. demings the same question. do we need more resources? fusion centers. michigan and florida. >> yes. i think nationwide, the fusion centers are in need of resources. because while all this has been going on, the country has gone thank you recession and that affected all the police agencies in terms of their budgets and personnel. i cut 165 positions during the downturn. which i don't have back. i have to pull someone out of our budget and out of our deployment and put them into the fusion center. it would be helpful if there was a way to original a combined platform, if they're going to be assigned basically to a federal joint terrorism or joint effort, there could be some funding that would be able to add to the interaction and grow it. a lot of agencies can't afford it. even i find it challenging because we're asked to be jttf, asked to be an identity theft, the secret service, a fugitive with the u.s. marshal. we're asked to be on all these different things. >> allow no get mr. demmings. my support to you for what your community experienced and what y