First Responder Protocol — A Public Service protocol for an inter-agency issue with no clear owner, under which an agency with relevant domain expertise is identified to resolve the request while ownership and back-end arrangements are sorted out.

Definition

Cross-government Public Service Division

Example: The FRP exists so an ownerless case still gets an owner before the agencies finish debating the boundary.

Also known as: FRP, First Responder, First Responder agency

Context: Here, First Responder refers to the agency assigned to act on an ownerless cross-agency issue, not an emergency-response role.

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