Police
This is an object located within a responder's vehicle. The vehicles have a mounted antenna and provide a power source.
What is a Mobile Radio?
Computer Aided Dispatch
On this day, lawmakers unanimously passed the Denise Amber Lee Act, creating Florida Statute 401.465, the 911 public safety telecommunicator certification.
What is April 24, 2008?
The Public Safety Telecommunicator Certification requires students to participate in an approved training program consisting of at least this many hours.
What is 232 Hours?
Mock Test 1
This is the medical term for fainting.
What is Syncope?
This is the Acronym used to remember what to look for in a standard vehicle description.
What is CYMBALS?
Color, Year, Make, Body, Additional, License, State
PSAP
Public Safety Answering Points
The First 911 call was made in Haleyville, Alabama.
What is 1968?
The US Dept of Homeland Security is responsible for guarding against terrorism, securing the US Boarders (the test put it this way not me), enforcing US immigration laws and this.
What is Improving Federal Readiness for Disasters?
Mock Test 2
This is a method used by emergency medical personnel to grade the severity of a traumatic injury and determine the need to transport to a designated/ verified trauma center.
What is Trauma Alert Criteria?
This is a short narrative completed by field units after contact with citizens.
What is FIR? Field Information Report.
ANI/ALI
Automatic Number Identification/ Automatic Location Identification
The Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act took effect, establishing 911 as the national emergency number.
What is in 1999?
Florida's Silver Alert Plan was made effective by an executive order in this month and year.
What is October, 2008?
Mock Test 3
This is for use by the public safety responders who arrive at the scene of an incident involving hazardous material. It is a tool used to quickly identify classifications of materials and ensure responder and public safety.
What is The Department of Transportation Emergency Response Guidebook (DOTERG)?
This is a warrant issued as a result of civil contempt.
What is a Writ of Bodily Attachment?
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (signed into law by Bill Clinton in August 1996)
The first two-way radio was implemented in Bayonne, New Jersey.
What is in 1933?
This type of terrorism is used to seek and form self-determination which may range from gaining greater autonomy to establishing a completely independent sovereign state.
What is Nationalist Terrorism?
Mock Test 5
This is a roll call of all units assigned to an incident, usually done with incident command.
What is Personnel Accountability Report (PAR)?
These are the phases in a Hostage Situation.
What are Initial, Negotiation, and Termination?
TDD/TTY
Telecommunications Device for the Deaf/ Teletypewrier (check the book that's what it stands for page 28)
After this day, any person employed as a 911 PST at a public safety answering point must be certified by the department.
What is October 1, 2012?
This is what CISM stands for.
What is Critical Incident Stress Management?
Mock Test 6
This is an interruption or severe reduction of oxygen-rich blood supply to a part of the brain.
What is a Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
What is a Stroke?