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GIS & GPS: Making ‘Police Presence’ More Precise

“Social Networking,” popularly defined in one sense as the creation of software-enabled virtual communities, has become a significant factor in how most Americans live their professional and personal lives. Many people, both young and old, now spend their days instant-messaging with coworkers and friends, sharing photos and movies with the

Backups for Emergency Satellite Communications

In today’s fast-moving world comprehensive, rapid, & continuing communications are the key to business success – and, in times of conflict, success on the battlefield as well. But what happens if communications systems are destroyed or made inoperable?

Three to Get Ready

The could-have/should-have (but did not) scenarios of the past serve as abundant reminders that the cost of national preparedness is only a fraction of the much higher cost that must always be paid for not being prepared.

WebEOC Fusion for Disasters and Everyday Use

Flexibility, versatility, and a quantum upgrade in overall capabilities are the biggest selling points of ESi’s newest WebEOC system, unveiled last month at the company’s fourth annual User Conference in Boston.

Quad City Interoperability Pilot Bolsters Regional Response Capabilities

For 12 months, first-responder communities, public-safety professionals, and government agencies in the Midwest’s Quad City region worked together in an unprecedented way to dramatically improve their ability to collectively, and individually, respond to emergencies, major incidents, and even street crime.  This unique pilot project, launched in 2007 in partnership with the

Crowd-Control Challenges in Pandemic Emergencies

The widespread outbreak of an infectious disease poses tremendous challenges for all disciplines in the emergency-services community. Pandemic emergencies are generally regarded as a significant public-health problem, but it is important that all stakeholders recognize that such pandemics present the law-enforcement community with major challenges as well. Fortunately, pandemic outbreaks

Rescue 21 Update: Advanced Comm Capabilities for the New Century

Mayday! Mayday! The internationally recognized distress call for mariners and aviators; however, if no one hears the call, help will not be dispatched.  The U.S. Coast Guard has been taking steps to make sure that their ships and shore stations do hear the call, whenever and wherever it is sounded,

Real ID: No Impediment to Law-Enforcement Photo Sharing

The Department of Homeland Security’s recent release of its Final Rule on implementation of the Real Act of 2005 calls for minimum standards for state-issued drivers licenses as one step in a larger effort to make it more difficult for unauthorized persons to acquire and/or create a fraudulent license or

Credentialing of Private-Sector Disaster Support Personnel

The credentialing of private-sector disaster-support personnel presumes a very strong public-private partnership. The development of a true public/private-sector disaster credentialing system is a significant challenge. The goal is to create common credentials for public and private-sector first responders and emergency managers by working on key screening initiatives, including ways to

The Gateway Key to Synergistic Communications

Thanks to mutual-aid compacts between neighboring political jurisdictions, first-responder cooperation at mass-casualty incidents is often a multi-agency effort. But before the agencies can work together they must first be able to speak the same language.

Partnerships at Work in Public Health Planning

The Commonwealth of Virginia once again provides a best-practices example of the best way to plan for a potential mass-casualty disaster: Ensure that all stakeholders, private-sector as well as government, are fully involved ahead of time, and practice.

Incident Action Planning – A Step-by-Step Process

The writing of an Incident Action Plan (IAP) for what is called an “expanding incident” is a long, complex, but also comprehensive process designed to clearly identify incident objectives, strategies, and tactics based on fundamental decisions made by the incident commander (IC) – who is responsible for establishing the incident

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