Rank Structure
Starts with the Letter "F"
Acronyms
Getting Started in the LPSCS Field
Disaster Terminology & Prevention
100
Starting rank in the standard rank structure of a police department (Standard: 6)
What is a Peace Officer?
100
A piece of information that is truthful and can be proven with evidence.
What is a fact?
100
PPE (Standard: 10)
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
100
Form filled out in order to apply for a certain job/profession
What is a job application?
100
Medical equipment often stored in a box in case of a minor medical emergency. It is commonly referred to as a (Standard: 10)
What is a first aid kit?
200
Rank in charge at the scene of a crime. Consists of own rank structure. Right above Lieutenant in a standard police ranking structure (Standard: 6)
What are Detectives?
200
Medically certified personnel to go to the scene of an emergency quickly (Standard: 10)
What is a First Responder?
200
CDCP
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention?
200
Record of prior experiences in the job field, skills, and previous professions
What is a resume?
200
Federal agency that is above all others. Created in the 2000s as a result of the terrorist attack on 9/11. (Standard: 10)
What is the Homeland Security?
300
It is either considered this or FTO. Right above Peace Officer. (Standard: 6)
What is a Corporal?
300
combustion or burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke (Standard: 13)
What is fire?
300
OSHA (Standard: 10)
What is the Occupational Health and Safety Administration?
300
Document that outlines the mission and values of a company or an organization (Standard: 9)
What are the Code of Ethics?
300
There are three types of disasters: man-made, non man-made, and this. (Standard: 10)
What is a technological disaster?
400
Sometimes referred to as Sheriff. Highest rank in structure. (Standard: 6)
What is a Chief?
400
The point on which a lever rests or is supported and on which it pivots (Standard: 14)
What is a fulcrum?
400
BLS (Standard: 11)
What is Basic Life Support?
400
Regulations independently set my a company for the employees to abide by. (Standard: 1-2)
What are rules?
400
Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations (Standard: 10)
What is the Citizens Emergency Response Team?
500
Emblem consists of 3 upward stripes. Above Corporal. (Standard: 6)
What is a Sergeant?
500
A jurisdiction level that covers the span of the entire country (Standard: 5)
What is federal?
500
GPS (Standard: 14)
What is Global Positioning Systems?
500
A scheduled meeting set up with the employer and the individual seeking a job. The individual submits his/her application and resume, then this event takes place.
What is a job interview?
500
a program under the Department of Homeland Security that provides training for the population of the United States to assist in the recovery after a disaster or terrorist attack. (Standard: 10)
What is the Citizen Corps?
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