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Pt2. The Way First Responders View Critical Incidents
Introduction
Generally speaking, law enforcement is first on the scene of a critical incident although depending on the proximity to a firehouse, an ambulance or firetruck may arrive first. In most jurisdictions, if an ambulance is dispatched, a firetruck goes with it and vice versa. The role for law enforcement is different from that of firemen and EMT’s. Police have to clear the threat before firemen and EMT’s go in to treat the wounded. All play a critical role and are interdependent to some extent. For this assignment, we will focus on the role of law enforcement, bearing in mind that what they do has a direct effect on how and when the wounded can get treatment, fires can be extinguished, areas declared structurally safe, free of explosive devises, etc.
Instructions
Read the following Critical Incident Manual
California Government Critical Incident Manual (Links to an external site.)
(pages 1-19 and 89-90 only).
You are a Captain of The Happy Land Police Department. You have been assigned the task to conduct training for the officers in your department, adjoining jurisdictions, the local Fire Department, and EMS. The scenario will be a 20- story building that has 2 active shooters somewhere below the 6th floor. Elevators have been disabled. It is believed that approximately 375 employees are in the building, although some may have escaped by now. You have two primary areas in which to train your students: Team Building and anything related to the media. Utilizing any information learned from the parts of the manual you just read and any other relevant information you found through research do the following:
· Describe what you would say to the students about team building. Why is it important? Can this be a matter of life and death? Without team building, what could go wrong and why?
· Devise a detailed plan for handling the media in an effective manner. How will you deal with difficult questions, with accusations, with asking you to speculate, etc.? What about staging areas, timed briefings, assigning a PIO, etc. Consider what if’s and be detailed with your training.
Pt1. Crucial Tasks for Law Enforcement at Critical Incidents
Introduction
A mere 20 years ago when law enforcement responded to critical incidents, for the most part, the response was disorganized. An agency’s policy manual may have designated who was in charge of the incident and under what conditions to activate SWAT but that was about it as far as a specific plan to deal with critical incidents. 9/11 changed all of that. Law enforcement has embraced the National Incident Management System (N.I.M.S.) along with a dozen or more other methods with various acronyms all designed to manage chaos. Multi- jurisdictional and multi-agency groups have been formed to respond as well. You might for example, have three SWAT teams, three fire departments, three EMT Jurisdictions, a Bomb Squad that might even include military personnel depending on the proximity to a military base and medical personnel from three jurisdictions, etc. all under one acronym to respond to one incident. The officers would all be sworn in, in all three jurisdictions. Regardless of how big the team may be, no response is effective without a plan.
Instructions
Go to this link:
Article at LEB.FBI.gov (Links to an external site.)
. Review the article, then utilizing what you learned from the article and additional research that you will need to do, do the following:
· Create a brief description of a large- scale critical incident. The length of your description is not important. What matters is the ability to apply all seven tasks to your scenario, so bear that in mind when creating your scenario.
· Identify the 7 critical tasks from the article above that must be done at a critical incident.
· Apply each task to the incident you created. You must explain what the task entails and make it applicable to the scenario you created. For example, explain why you chose specific distances for the inner and outer perimeter, why you chose a location for a command post, a staging area, etc. This part will require outside research in order for you to fully grasp what the task entails. Cite your sources.
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