Section 1 & 2: Purpose of Law Enforcement Incident Command. Familiarizing law enforcement professionals with the components and application of law enforcement response to major critical incidents. Section 3: History of Law Enforcement Incident Command. An example of the evolution of incident command as it applies to a local jurisdiction, including Firescope, the 1972 anti-war riots, the influence of the United States Department of Justice, to the Columbine High School shootings in the author's jurisdiction in 1999. Section 4: Contributing Public Safety Services to Critical Incidents. How do fire, EMS, the Coroner, the District Attorney, churches, military, local government, state and federal government agencies contribute to law enforcement activities during critical incidents.understand the importance of the Nunn-Lugar Act, the Stafford Act and the Patriot Act.access the important information found with agencies such as the Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center, Violent Criminal Apprehension Program and Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
Section 5: Unified Incident Command System. Guiding principles behind multi-jurisdictional emergencies.what is the statutory authority for fire and police decisions? Section 6: Law Enforcement Incident Command System [LEICS]. Basic management principles that are interchangeable among responding law enforcement, fire, EMS and emergency management personnel.What is modular organization and how important is communications to the success of a critical incident? Section 7: LEICS First Responder Deployment in Unplanned Critical Incidents. The five components of success.psychological and emotional effects on law enforcement first responders.first responder deployment.
overall strategies.planning for joint coordination.tactical response to critical incidents.and maximizing the use of all available resources. Section 8: The First Seven Steps [Getting Control of Chaos]. Critical incidents must be managed by a sense of order. The first responder must be able to establish order from chaos.how is this done'.
Making the difficult decisions. Section 9: Functions of the Law Enforcement Incident Command System. What are the roles of the law enforcement incident commander.field media representative.public information.hospital functionary and deputy incident commander. Section 10: Staging. Alleviating chaos at the scene of a critical incident requires places to stage personnel and equipment.
Victim assembly areas, relocation centers for evacuees, security, and deployment of resources is discussed. Section 11: Operations. The use of special teams.traffic control points.fire spotting.and the evacuations of people, animals and children.discipline and accountability of uniformed law enforcement personnel. Section 12: Investigations.
The collection, evaluation and dissemination of information related to a critical incident is the responsibility of Investigations. This Section details the deployment of investigators, leading the investigative effort, how to keep the Book, the responsibility of evidence preservation, victim services, dealing with mass casualties, Interpol's public disaster guide, and erecting field mortuaries.VICAP instructions and form.Multi-Agency Case Presentation Book. Section 13: Death of a Peace Officer in the Line of Duty. Managing the affairs of an employee's death.notifications.CEO responsibilities.
the funeral arrangements. decedent benefits; Worker's Compensation, Victim Compensation, IACP Tribute, National Law Enforcemen.