Due to Winter Storm Caddo Parish is in Emergency Crisis Mode Get our free mobile app This Winter Storm straight from the North Pole is bringing on problems like Caddo Parish and the City of Shreveport have never seen. Due to the extremity of these issues, the Caddo Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness has activated its 24-hour Emergency Operations Center to coordinate a unified agency response to the winter weather event. Sheriff Steve Prator, Director of Caddo OHSEP, said a representative from each of the following agencies will maintain a presence in the EOC until the weather event has passed and will serve as the strategic decision-making body for emergency and disaster response: