Security Services
The wide range of activities used by nongovernment organizations and persons to protect themselves from criminal endeavors
What is Private Security
The medical dissection and examination of a body in order to determine the cause of death.
What is an Autopsy
The care that an EMR, EMT, AEMT or Paramedic is allowed and supposed to provide according to local, state, or regional regulations or statues.
What is Scope of practice
Heat, Fuel, Oxygen
What is the Fire Triangle
A series of command, control, executive, or management positions in hierarchal order of authority.
What is Chain of Command
A crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year, regardless of the period of imprisonment actually impose
What is a felony
The process used to maintain and document the chronological history of the evidence. Documents record the individual who collects the evidence and each person or agency that subsequently takes custody of it.
What is Chain of Custody
A first responders legal responsibility to respond promptly to an emergency scene and provide medical care (within in the limits of training and available equipment)
What is Duty to Act
Distress signal used by a downed or injured firefighter.
What is a Mayday call
A group of incident personnel organized according to function and reporting to the Incident Commander or Unified Command. Consists of the Operations Section Chief, Planning Section Chief, Logistics Section Chief, Finance/Administration Section Chief.
What is the general staff
A management technique that identifies, analyzes, and assess risks/threats; if a risk/threat is detected employs various methods are employed to manage it
What is Risk Management
The unwanted transfer of material between two or more sources of physical evidence.
What is Cross Contamination
A wound that is produced by the tearing of soft body tissue. This type of wound is often irregular and jagged. This wound is often contaminated with bacteria and debris from whatever object caused the cut.
What is a Laceration
Stored energy that can be released (dead tree, paper, gasoline,) has the ability to burn.
What is Potential energy
An occurrence or event, natural or human-caused, that requires an emergency response to protect life or property.
What is an Incident
A theory of justice whereby the aim of punishment is to prevent or deter future criminal activity
What is Deterrence
Steps and processes undertaken by the laboratory to ensure that the correct tests are performed and that they are performed with accuracy.
What are Protocols
Any subjective evidence of disease.
What is a Symptom
A material that will maintain the ability to combust.
What is a fuel
A member of the Command Staff responsible for coordinating with representatives from cooperating and assisting agencies.
What is a Liaison Officer
a) Ability to carry out the crime
b) Motivation (desire) to carry out the crime
c) Opportunity to carry out the crime
What is the crime equation
The theory that every person who enters or exits an area will deposit or remove physical material from the scene.
What is Locard’s Exchange Principal
A member of the EMS system whose training includes advanced life support care, such as inserting airways and starting IV lines. They also administer medications, interpret electrocardiograms, monitor cardiac rhythms, and perform cardiac defibrillation
What is a Paramedic
Covers safety and health related procedures for fire department.
What is NFPA 1500
A standardized on-scene emergency management construct specifically designed to provide for the adoption of an integrated organizational structure that reflects the complexity and demands of single or multiple incidents, without being hindered by jurisdictional boundaries.
What is Incident Command System (ICS)