Public safety

The role of balancing individual and collective rights is one role that, like many others, shifts over time. By taking on the role of balancing individual and collective rights, police maintain a delicate balance between crime control and due process (Walker & Katz, 2002). If too much discretion is allowed, police may gravitate toward crime control and be faced with a moral dilemma, in which there are two decisions presented to an officer, each with undesirable consequences. This phenomenon is…

Emergency workers are considered a special breed of humans; they are those who are willing to take extra sacrifices to potentially save the life of a total stranger. While commonly, the monetary reward for those who attempts such feats is miniscule, the act of selfless service is more than reward enough for those who are willing to answer the call. No matter how heroic one might feel the job of an emergency worker is, there is always someone who wants to rain on his or her parade. As quoted in…

My position within the Texas Department of Public Safety is the detail leader for the Lieutenant Governor’s protection detail. The detail consists of five Agents. We have the honor of protecting the Lieutenant Governor and his wife. My detail and I must adhere to the seven qualities of a professional in order to perform successfully. Protection duties involve the actual protection of a protectee, advance duties, and communication skills. My position is to ensure the Agents have the knowledge…

1. Figure 1 represents the disaster management cycle as it is generally conceived. Describe the preparedness and emergency response portions of the cycle and explaining important concern of yours and how it could be addressed in different phases of the disaster cycle. The Disaster Management Cycle is generally understood to be comprised of four cyclical components. These four deeply interrelated and symbiotic components include Preparation, Response, Reconstruction or Recovery, and Prevention…

Parker J. Palmer is an author, educator, and citizen-activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He is also the founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal. He has authored several books including, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation The Courage to Teach The Active Life A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, and Healing the Heart of Democracy. “In There Is a Season” originally published in 1999…

Northridge earthquake Recovery The National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) is a guide to FOSTER successful recovery, particularly for catastrophic incidents like earthquakes. The NDRF provides guidance that assists efficient recovery support to areas impacted by the earthquake. It provides an accommodating structure that facilitates disaster recovery managers to function in an integrated manner. It also emphasis on how to reinstate, redevelop, and regenerate the health, social, economic,…

Introduction On April 16th 2007 in Blacksburg, VA at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Seung-Hui Cho a senior at the university shot a total of 49 people, killing 32 of them, then proceeded to turn the gun on himself in one of the most disastrous school murder-suicides of all time. One of the most casualty producing school shootings of all time. The damage was the lives of the taken students and the psychological health of those at the university. Within this shooting there were two incidents.…

during disasters and hazards that threaten the region, and allow us access to medical supplies and equipment. Police: Networking with the police is useful for events that threaten areas of the region. This network would give us access to security and safety for civilians and to help…

Impact of Policies Policies can have significant effects on the public services, the government can create new laws that affect all the public services such as the armed services and also it will affect all the emergency services. Human rights – the public services have a lot of control over our lives as they have the power to take our independence away and also to investigate our private lives, they can use the information they find against us. However, in order for these powers to be…

The Public Safety Act of 2016 was passed during April 2016. The public safety process of becoming an act started in 2014 when Governor Haslam created a special task force. The task force is composed of 250 stakeholders from Tennessee from different organizations. The stakeholders include district attorneys, legislators, judges, public defenders, state agency commissioners, mayors, victim rights activists, treatment providers, sheriffs, religious leaders, and representatives. The task force…