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. The first he had killed two people in a dormitory room, in West Ambler Johnston Hall, a residence housing about 900 students.…
A semi just wrecked and there is a fluid that is all over the highway. There are cars upside down and people are hurt. What do you do? More than likely you are going to call 9-1-1 for help. 9-1-1 Dispatchers will ask a series of questions to find out which emergency personnel to send out.…
Police need to continue training to be prepared for the unfortunate event of an attack as well as work together with other agencies in order to effectively execute the training and precautionary plans they established in order to keep the citizens of the United States safe from…
When minimum standards were brought up given the fact that officers risk their lives for the public safety and are carrying weapons that have the power to take a life away. The amount of time to react and the need to competent communication skills increased the importance and understanding of multiculturalism, anti-racism, and anti-bias training. Also, these training could have an impact on all these steps and the intervention and use of strength due to the involvement of people of color. Through the criminal justice system, the original response is only the tip of the…
Being an emergency dispatcher is not an easy task. People mistake the job of an emergency dispatcher to be easy since their primary responsibility is to answer phone calls. However, it is forgotten that these calls pertain to traumatic situations in which the dispatcher must remain calm for the sake of the caller. Despite the training dispatchers receive to remain calm, collected, and professional during all aspects of any call, they are not truly prepared to handle the stress that accompanies this service job. Stress overcomes a dispatcher even before they answer a phone call.…
Incident response designs give guidelines to reacting to various potential situations, including information ruptures, refusal of administration/dispersed foreswearing of administration assaults, firewall breaks, infection or malware flare-ups or insider dangers. Without an occurrence reaction design set up, associations may either not recognize the assault in any case, or not take after the legitimate convention to contain the risk and recuperate from it when a break is…
Abstract First Responders often face life and death situations. The public expectation is that when they arrive on scene these men and women will be able to take quick action and resolve the issue at hand. More often than not First Responders are armed with little or no information prior to arriving at a scene. Once there they take fast and reasonable steps to control the situation. However, the public sometimes do not understand the outcome of such calls.…
Zones: The Entity-Level controls associated with ABC Ferries include a Disaster Recovery Plan, and an Internal Audit of all IT records. Because the Disaster Recovery Plan focuses on higher-level issues, ensuring that all information is backed up off-site and a complete plan is in place in case of a disaster, it is considered an Entity-Level control. In addition, the Internal Audit is performed to help detect fraud and is an overall policy that is in place, making it an Entity-Level control as well. The IT General Controls in the system are an Employee Login ID and Fingerprint Scanner, Removal of Duplicate Entries, and a Summary of Employee Logs.…
Working in law enforcement can be dangerous for people in Pennsylvania, and throughout the U.S. All too often, officers and agents suffer work-related injuries, or are killed in the line of duty. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that police and sheriff’s department officers sustained more than 27,000 occupational injuries in 2014 alone. While many of the dangers they face come with the job, a recent study found that law enforcement officers’ shifts may also contribute to their injury risk. Common occupational hazards for law enforcement officers…
When police believe their life is in danger, they tend to act rashly, and too often people are hurt in the…
. For instance, in reflection on recent events like the bombing in Manchester, UK and paranoia of the amount of terrorist activity that could be surrounds us, police need to change their methods of reaction and develop a more direct proactive approach to mitigate and interrupt criminal acts or terror attacks. This approach will gear towards, problem solving, environmental scanning, and effective communications with the public, fear reduction, and community…
In order to explain the importance of communication during all phases of emergency management, one must first know the four phases of emergency management. These phases are mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery (Haddow & Haddow, 2014). Obviously some of these phases occur before a potential disaster or emergency and some apply only after a disaster or emergency occurs. With that being said, communications are extremely important through all phases. Furthermore, timely and accurate information is crucial.…
Conclusion Summary of Emergency Response Plan In chlorine spills, one of the hardest decisions is whether or not to evacuate people. Given the number of high rises in Chicago, it would be too difficult to move that dense of a population and it would probably be safe to stay in as long as the air inlets are closed and they are not located in basements. Thus, we will move towards focusing our efforts on low-lying buildings where chlorine can enter on vulnerable people as well as our high-risk members like pre-schoolers and those with lung diseases. Buses will bring these people towards evacuation shelters nearby where they can have food, water, and medical assistance.…
The topic discussion post has good reference to getting the information out there to individuals. I agree that there needs to be some form of educating individuals with special needs and preparing first responders to seek out those that will need additional assistance. Should these individuals have priority? Yes. Just like stickers on windows alerting when there is a child's room in a building to alert fire fighters, there should be a stickers hand-out or some other form to ensure no one has to wait for help to arrive, assuming that power and phone lines are out.…
Case Study Response - Question One While many walks of life and previous work related experience can be helpful, I believe my 23 years of military experience has prepared me very well to work in the field of emergency management. First off, I have a background of working in a controlled chaos environment for 6-10 months at a team while on deployments, and during work up cycles prior to deploying. I have learned to adapt to changing situations much more easily than most people coming right out of college or training programs.…