Committee of Public Safety

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…

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…

between the station to where the crime or scenario is taking place. In the next part of this assignment I am going to identify the statutory and voluntary who work together on the scene of an incident and what the roles and responsibilities are for the public services when attending the emergency. Finally, I am going to evaluate the inter-agency and how the cooperate with the emergency response services. Firstly, I am going to talk about how the police force grades an emergency incident. Once a…

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…

Unified Command, is used when the incidents involve multiple jurisdictions and agencies and the agencies’ responsibilities overlap. Command Staffs work for either single or unified command. The three main Command Staff positions consist of Public Information Officer, Safety Officer, and Liaison…

service personnel that may arrive on the scene of an accident involving the transportation of dangerous goods. This guide is intended to help responders identify the specific material hazards and inform them of how to keep not only themselves but the public as well safe. This book is helpful during the initial response phase, which is the period of time when first responders arrive on the scene and determine the correct course of action to secure the area once it has been determined that there…

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…