State and Federal Law Enforcement
This agency is responsible to preserve and protect the state's natural resources.
What is the DNR?
This skill uses a combination of direct pressure and tourniquet application in order to help control severe bleeding.
What is 'Stop The Bleed'?
Our District Attorney answers to this one 'boss.'
Who are the People?
Known as a work release program, inmates are able to leave the locked facility for certain hours for the purpose of work, child/elder care, school or treatment.
What is HUBER?
This position often found in municipal law enforcement agencies is designed to hire young people who are interested in the police officer career.
What is POLICE AID? or COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICER? (CSO)
This model includes HEALTHY, REACTING, INJURED and ILL
What is the Mental Health Continuum Model?
Many dispatchers are trained in this program in order to help provide medical directions in times of emergency.
What is EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCH?
There are 56 of these FBI sites throughout the United States.
What are Field Offices?
This piece of important firefighting equipment allows firefighters to enter a smoke-filled environment and breathe portable air.
What is SCBA (Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus)?
This program helps victims to pay for unreimbursed eligible expenses that result from a crime
What is the CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION program?
This is a system for proper use of force in the correctional setting.
What is Principles of Subject Control...or POSC?
Another name for the Sheriff's department drone.
What is an UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM or UAS?
This assessment is a tool to help you identify your top five strengths
What is the Strengthsfinders Assessment?
The most important FIRST QUESTION that dispatchers need to ask.
WHERE is the emergency?
The HSI is part of what Federal Agency?
What is HOMELAND SECURITY?
The average weight of firefighter gear
What is 60 POUNDS?
It is this person's job to prosecute cases and represent the people.
Who is the District Attorney?
This type of interviewing is used by Probation/Parole in order to help offenders come to their own realization that what they're doing is not working, and to work with the agent to change their behavior for a positive result.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
The location where most of the sheriff's department K9 searches take place.
What is a CAR/VEHICLE?
This is where I, as a student, can find mental health counseling which is free and private.
What is WCTC Mental Health Counseling?
This system allows dispatchers to locate a caller on a cellphone within 15 ft.
What is RAPID SOS?
The state patrol uses this aircraft tool for speed detection.
What is VASCAR?
The average time to train to become a firefighter or EMT.
What is 6 MONTHS?
What is Marcie's Law?
A prisoner is on this after being released from prison, with very specific conditions which include meeting with an agent who will help him/her understand and follow these directives.
What is PAROLE?
One of the most important character traits that a law enforcement officer needs to have.
What is HONESTY/INTEGRITY?
These types of issues are NOT caused by character flaws, but are in fact a public health issue.
What are mental health issues?
This is the proper name/acronym for a dispatch center; where they take 911 calls for service.
What is a PSAP? (Public Safety Answering Point)
Who are INSPECTORS?
This is a typical schedule for firefighters
What is a KELLY schedule?
(Typically 24-48 hours ON)
This is the unit that provides 24/7 crisis counseling services for victims, and responds directly to homes, departments, businesses, hospitals or crime scenes to provide support.
What is the Mobile Victim Assistance or MVA?
This is the name given to the various units within the Waukesha County Jail. Each of them houses inmates with specific needs.
What is a POD?
These centers are used to test law enforcement applicants and include activities such as watching videos, writing reports, and acting in a citizen-encounter situation.
What are ASSESSMENT CENTERS?
We learned that undiagnosed and untreated mental health issues can lead to this.
What is suicide?
We learned there are two types of dispatch centers. One is a single seat and the other goes by this name.
What is CONSOLIDATED?
These special groups run by federal law enforcement agencies are made up of agents as well as members of municipal/county/state law enforcement agencies to help promote information sharing and case management.
What is a TASK FORCE?
This piece of information found on a deceased person is NOT enough to identify them.
What is a DRIVERS LICENSE?
You cannot have had this type of conviction if you want to secure a Private Security Permit.
What is a FELONY?
This special training for officers helps them to recognize and de-escalate people who are experiencing a mental health crisis.
What is CIT or CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING?
This is the number of college credits that most agencies require in order to be hired as a law enforcement officer in Wisconsin.
What are 60?
Identifying your STRENGTHS is important because you will be asked about these in this particular situation.
What is an interview?
What is REPETITIVE PERSISTENCE?
The Division of Criminal Investigation is under which Wisconsin agency?
What is the WI Department of Justice.
This person investigates deaths, and has been elected to this important position.
What is a Coroner?
Crime Victim's rights are important, and laid out in the Constitutional Amendment as well as this piece of legislation.
What is the Crime Victim Bill of Rights?
Probation agents work with people who have been charged with minor offenses, where they get probation instead of serving jail time. These other types of agents work with people who have already been in prison and who are to be released into the community.
What are PAROLE OFFICERS?
Positions at police departments which are meant to introduce college students to careers in law enforcement. These paid positions often include duties such as vehicle lockouts, park patrol, traffic direction, animal control, and parking enforcement.
What are Police Aides?
People in this particular job/career area are especially prone to mental health issues because they see, hear and experience difficult things in their work.
What is public safety?
This system is used by 911 dispatchers in order to create, dispatch and track responding units on any given call.
What is CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch)?
This position is the backbone of the HSI.
What is a Special Agent?
The five categories of death are natural, suicide, homicide, undetermined and this category.
What is ACCIDENTAL?
This position uses open-source intelligence and crime statistics to make a decision-making advantage during an investigation.
What is a intelligence analyst?
Probation officers in Wisconsin are trained using this type of response practice in order to help an individual on supervision to be more successful and to avoid recidivism.
What is EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICES?
These types of officers are trained by their handlers giving commands in other languages in order to ensure that citizens can't control their actions.
What are K9's?
The strengthsfinders assessment tool will help us to identify our top five strengths out of this number of strengths featured in the book and assessment.
What is 34?
This professional often works at a police/sheriff's office and completes tasks such as typing reports, dictation, filing, assisting citizens at the counter, answering non-emergency administrative calls and assembling/completing open records requests.
What is a Police/Records Clerk?