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Seven Strategies to Find Funding for Officer Training
In a difficult economic environment, officer training may be deemed as an extra in the department's budget. Grant funding becomes a critical means to fulfill training needs. To obtain grant funding for training you and your department must be prepared to meet the rigorous review and critical eye of the agency or organization providing the funds.
When the funding for training falls under discretionary funding
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Strategic Planning for Public Safety:
Why agencies need to more effectively plan for the future
By John Kapinos
The following is my best recollection of a conversation between me and a command-level officer in an agency I used to work for. This conversation occurred sometime in 2001:
"John, I don't know why you are always pushing this strategic planning thing. We are a 'put out the fire' type of organization - we don't have time for that kind of stuff".
"Maybe if we did better strategic planning, we wouldn't have so many fires to put out."
"But we are really good at putting out the fires".
This reflects what seems to be the typical mindset within much of the public safety profession when somebody mentions the idea of strategic planning. In fact, the emergency response community makes a professional point of pride at being able to respond and handle any form of catastrophic event that occurs on their watch; and our first responders do indeed uniformly excel at this. The drawback to this however
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Citizens Submit Their Questions
The questions below
were asked (submitted) by non public safety professionals. We found some of the questions to be interesting, funny, and some insightful. Click on the answer to read responses or add your own.
Q: Why do the police ask, "Do you know why I pulled you over?"
Q: How do firefighters view dying in the line of duty?
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Q: If search dogs are after me, what's the best way to throw them off my trail?
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Q: Do emergency personnel on code runs prefer freeways or surface streets?
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IES Interactive Training is a world-leading manufacturer of advanced interactive force-option decision/response simulators and firearms training systems. IES's award winning MILO Range training simulator systems are selected by agencies interested in improving weapons and force-option deployment skills, decision-making and cognitive thinking skills, and measuring individual and collective tactical and technical skills in law enforcement, public safety and combat environments.
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Fire Training Systems Drager's comprehensive portfolio of both Class A and B professional fire training props, as well as custom configurable SCBA confidence mazes, allow solutions that are tailored to the unique needs of individual fire departments, giving Fire Fighters the ability to practice in a safe environment. Whether you are looking for a fixed or mobile solution, let the experts at Drager help you design the solution that is right for you. |
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ResponderGateway.net has been designed to make it easy to find exactly what's going on in the world of the emergency responder. One place. One stop. One source. This site is a great resource for anyone who wants to stay up to date about various subjects within the first responder industry and doesn't have time to waste. |
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FSTI has provided training to the volunteer public safety community since 2006. It has been our mission to provide high quality training to firefighters while at the same time promoting community safety.
Fire Services Training Institute (FSTI) is a non-profit public benefit corporation with both state and federal tax exempt status.
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