Crisis Management at a scene often presents challenges to all agencies involved in the response. Police, Fire, EMS, Evidence collection teams, and other governmental agencies are often charged with similar but different responsibilities. Police Departments have safety, security, crowd control, criminal investigative, and other responsibilities. Fire Departments have immediate safety, search and rescue, fire suppression and ‘mop up’ responsibilities. Emergency Medical Services have immediate life saving, triage, treatment, and transport responsibilities. All the while, valuable evidence may be destroyed or lost in the process. All agencies interests intersect and must work together. At times, roles and responsibilities become may become confused, especially in unique scenes such as explosions and hazardous materials scenes. Protection of life and property and protection of collection of valuable crime scene evidence may have competing interests and may be affected by the dangerous conditions of the scene environment.
This week long course sponsored by the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science will provide classroom and mock scene training to professionals of all emergency services. The course will cover these important areas of understanding and cooperation:
- Overview of disaster response operations : Federal ,State, Local agencies, private sector entities
- Approaches to disaster management: misperceptions, traditional approaches, professional response, hazard detection
- Responding to natural disasters, technological disasters, acts of terrorism, communication and coordination, evidence protection and collection
- Incident Command, Emergency Operations Centers, National Incident Management System, Use of Technology
- Scenario and command post exercise and review
Attendees will be presented with a certificate from the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science upon completion of the course.
Instructors will be from the staff of the University of New Haven and the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science.
COURSE POSTPONED during May 2013. Please see that the 22nd Annual Arnold Markle Symposium, October 14, 15, 2013 will be on the topic of Management of Shooting Incidents.