The Emergency Operations Center policy group is associated with which entity?

• A. Elected Officials
• B. Procurement Unit
• C. Narratives
• D. Automatic Aid

Answer: (A)

The question focuses on who holds the policy-making authority in the Emergency Operations Center during a response. The policy group represents the political leadership that sets community-wide priorities and approves resource allocations and major actions. This leadership is typically made up of elected officials who have the authority to authorize funding and high-level decisions that guide the incident response. Their role is to provide direction, ensure alignment with community goals, and support the incident management team with the necessary resources.

The other options describe roles that don’t fit the policy-group function: the Procurement Unit handles purchasing and contracts to obtain supplies and services; Narratives refer to incident documentation or reports, not a leadership body; Automatic Aid is a mutual-aid mechanism for obtaining resources from other jurisdictions, not a governance or policy group.