Allowing tactical paramedics to make entry with SWAT and law enforcement tactical units is becoming increasingly more popular around the world. Lives are being saved with medical personnel present to perform lifesaving treatments within seconds of injury. TEMS providers and conventional EMS have different care priorities while seeking similar outcomes. EMT and paramedic training programs do not comprehensively address law enforcement operation...

History illustrates that active shooter, hostile events and mass casualty incidents (hereinafter ASHE, MCI or ASHE/MCI) can occur in any venue, in both hard and soft targets, in any municipality at any time of day on any day of the week. Secure locations like law enforcement agencies, military bases, airports, court buildings and other government structures are all types of venues in which an ASHE/MCI has occurred. Further, ASHE/MCIs have occu...

The events of 9/11 created permanent changes in the provision of emergency services. Remembering the lives lost, recovery efforts and long-term influences are essential for emergency service professionals in all disciplines. Major incident response has been a discussion for decades, but what have fire, EMS and law enforcement learned from these events? This webinar will discuss the lessons learned at what took place after the 9/11 attack, the...

There is an enormous amount of pressure on frontline public safety professionals to use 'de-escalation.' However, the ability to use de-escalation principles, to build rapport and influence behavior of people in crisis, takes time. Often, a lot of time. In this webinar, Senior De-escalation Instructor Chris Butler from the Force Science Institute will discuss the critical tactical considerations that must be implemented in order to stabilize t...

In 2016, Respond-Observe-Assess-React (ROAR) was developed by Dr. Pietro D’Ingillo and Sgt. Eric Ehrhorn to instruct members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. This response model minutely dissects facets of field response and is considered a roadmap to de-escalation (crisis stabilization), field dynamics and decision making. ROAR’s design innately identifies stabilizing and de-stabilizing factors which are integ...

Allowing tactical paramedics to make entry with SWAT and law enforcement tactical units is becoming increasingly popular around the world. Lives are being saved with medical personnel present to perform lifesaving treatments within seconds of injury. But there are a lot of factors for agencies to consider from training and equipment to policies and funding. The IPSA’s TEMS 101 panel webinar is designed as a Q+A style discussion with TEMS...

In emergency response every second matters. Live911 allows first responders to hear 911 calls in real-time. With Live911 software, patrol officers can monitor incoming emergency calls for their immediate area in real-time. First Responders can hear the caller’s urgency and small details that may not be entered into the CAD system as well as identify on a map the caller’s precise location prior the call for service being dispatched....

Speaker: Dr. Anna Fitch Courie, DNP, RN, PHNA-BC, Director, Responder Wellness, FirstNet Program at AT&T Description: First responders experience health risk factors that far exceed the general population – simply by the nature of their work. And there are different levels of intervention to help influence health, according to the socio-ecological model of health and behavior change. These include the individual; the family, unit or...

The number of officers who died in the line of duty in 2020 was the highest level of loss in almost 50 years, with much of the increase attributable to COVID-19. As we continue to deal with the pandemic, there’s an equally deadly threat to officers which has long been on the minds of law enforcement officials: police officer suicides. Tragically, the number of police suicides each year often exceeds line-of-duty deaths and leaders have l...