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Local government can empower citizen preparedness and self-reliance through the General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS)
Local government can help its community members prepare to help themselves during natural disasters by creating the infrastructure for a community-wide GMRS radio system.
Apocalyptic events and policing
An apocalyptic event refers to any catastrophic event with the potential to bring about the end of our world as we know it. This could range from natural catastrophes, like supervolcano eruption or meteor impact, or man-made catastrophes, like nuclear warfare or pandemic pandemic; all of these have one thing in common - severe disruption or collapse of society's fundamental structures such as governance, economy and public safety mechanisms like police.