APCO JEOPARDY

ABBREVIATIONS

100

CAD

COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH

200

TERT

TELECOMMUNICATOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE TASK FORCER 

300

THE 4 or 5 ”W”s

Where, when, what and who…plus weapons if applicable

400

CYMBALS

COLOR, YEAR OF VEHICLE, MAKE/MODEL, BODY, ADDITIONAL INFO, LICENSE PLATE, STATE OF LICENSE

500

EAS

EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM

DEFINITIONS

100

POLICY

A GUIDE TO THINKING

200

PROCEDURE 

A GUIDE TO ACTION

300

HEARING-CARRY OVER (HCO) IS WHAT?

A COMMUNICATION METHOD THAT UTILIZES BOTH VOICE AND TEXT COMMUNICATION ALLOWING A PERSON WHO IS SPEECH IMPAIRED TO LISTEN TO THE OTHER PARTIES CONVERSATION AND RESPOND BY TYPING VIA A TTY or other means of communications

400

RADIO

A MEANS OF TRANSMITTING INFORMATION WITHOU A PHYSICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN SENDER AND RECEIVER

500

BATTERY VS ASSAULT

ASSAULT TYPICALLY DOES NOT INVOLVE AN PHYSICAL CONTACT, IT CAN BE VERBAL

BATTERY INFERS SOME TYPE OF PHYSICAL CONTACT HAS OCCURED

FINISH THIS

100

THE SIX COMPONENTS OF THE COMMUNICATION CYCLE ARE- THE SENDER, RECEIVER, MESSAGE, MEDIUM , CONTEXT AND ?

FEEDBACK

200

THE FOUR BASIC OPERATIONAL METHODS FOR CALL ROTING ARE…DIRECT DISPATCH, CALL TRANSFER, CALL RELAY AND THIS..

CALL REFERRAL

300

After finishing a sentence you should type what when handling TTY calls? 

GA- GO AHEAD 

400

THE ABILITY FOR MULTIPLE AGENCIES TO CONVERSE WITH ONE ANOTHER USING COMMON RADIO FREQUENCIES IS THIS 

RADIO INTEROPERABILITY

500

TIME LAPSES ARE TYPICALLY CLASSIFIED AS IN PROGRESS, JUST OCCURRED AND THIS 

DELAYED

What is it?

100

An all encompassing term for actions that include answering the phones, handling conversations and gathering pertinent incident information.

Call processing

200

MULTI-LINE TELEPHONE SYSTEMS THAT PROVIDE PSAPS WITH ONLY THE ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER OF A SINGLE, CENTRAL LOCATION WITHIN THE SYSTEM.

PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE SYSTEMS (PBX)

300

TELEMATICS TECHNOLOGY ENABLES THE TRANSMISSION OF AN EMERGENCY VOICE CALL FOR TELEMATICS EQUIPPED VEHICLES WHEN DRIVER PUSHED A MAYDAY BUTTON OR A CRASH TRIGGERS AIRBAG DEPLOYMENT OR ACTIVATION OF CRASH SENSORS CALLED THIS..

AUTOMATIC CRASH NOTIFICATION (ACN)

400

A US GOVERNMENT AGENCY CHARGED WITH REGULATING INTERSTATE AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BY RADIO, TV, WIRE, SATELLITE AND CABLE..

THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC)

500

THIS RADIO SYSTEM PROVIDERS PERHAPS THE BEST COVERAGE AND ALSO OFFERS DIRECT BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOST EFFICIENT USE OF SPECTRUM (THE FULL RANGE OR RADIO FREQUENCIES USED FOR COMMUNICATION)

MULTI-SITE TRUNKED RADIO SYSTEMS

RANDOM

100

THIS WILL ALLOW ANYONE TO CONTACT 9-11 FROM ANY INTERNET ENABLE DEVICE OR EXISTING TELEPHONE SYSTEMS ..

NEXT GENERATION 9-11 (NG9-11)

200

A SILENT, OPEN-LINE CALL MUST BE CONSIDERED WHAT KIND OF CALL UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE?

A TTY CALL 

300

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MIDNIGHT

400

WHEN YOU RECEIVE CALL FROM A BOMB THREAT SUSPECT YOU SHOULD DO WHAT 

RECORD THE EXACT WORDING OF THE BOMB THREAT 

500

WHAT TYPE OF DISTURBANCES ARE TYPICALLY CONSIDERED THE MOST HAZARDOUS CALLS TO WHICH PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIALS RESPOND?

DOMESTIC/FAMILY DISTURBANCES