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An incident response team (IRT) or emergency response team (ERT) is a group of people who prepare for and respond to an emergency, such as a natural disaster or an interruption of business operations. Incident response teams are common in public service organizations as well as in other organizations, either military or specialty.
A teen community emergency response team (teen CERT), or student emergency response team (SERT), can be formed from any group of teens. [1] A teen CERT can be formed as a school club, service organization, venturing crew, explorer post, or the training can be added to a school's graduation curriculum. Some CERTs form a club or service ...
The Emergency Response Team (ERT; French: Groupe tactique d'intervention) [2] are police tactical units of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police based throughout Canada and are mainly part-time teams. According to the RCMP, the ERT "is a group of highly-trained RCMP members capable of employing specialized weapons, equipment, and tactics to resolve ...
Emergency response officers (EROs) are people who are trained to be the first line of response in any emergency situation. The primary role played by EROs are to check out any reported incident locally and assess the situation. If deemed appropriate the professional emergency services like the police, ambulance and/or fire brigade will be called up and the EROs will facilitate the access of ...
The Incident Commander is the person responsible for all aspects of an emergency response; including quickly developing incident objectives, managing all incident operations, application of resources as well as responsibility for all persons involved.
A correctional emergency response team (abbreviated CERT [1] or CRT) is a team of specially trained prison officers tasked with responding to disturbances, riots, cell extractions, mass searches, and other situations in prisons that are likely to involve uncooperative or violent prisoners.
ERTSAR was founded in the UK on 1 December 2002 as a non-profit NGO by Gary Foo and registered as a charity in England and Wales in 2004. [2]The UK team was originally known as Oxfordshire Search And Rescue (OSAR), and subsequently renamed to Emergency Response Team Search And Rescue in 2006 to reflect the international disaster response work it was involved in.
A Critical Incident Response Team member at a siege in Belmont, Geelong on 27 September 2012. In March 2004, the Force Response Unit (FRU) launched the CIRT concept consisting of two teams of officers patrolling in a Van each to provide specialist assistance to general duties police with a primary focus on tactical support and negotiation capabilities supported by a greater range of less-than ...