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  2. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Emergency service response codes are predefined systems used by emergency services to describe the priority and response assigned to calls for service. Response codes vary from country to country, jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and even agency to agency, with different methods used to categorize responses to reported events.

  3. Ten-code - Wikipedia

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    A standard message form for use by all police departments. A simple code for service dispatches relating to corrections, repetitions, etc. A standard arrangement of the context of messages, (for example, name and description of missing person might be transmitted as follows: Name, age, height, weight, physical characteristics, clothing; if car ...

  4. List of first response mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    Rescue - Get known victims out of danger and conduct assessments (whether through internal searches or interviewing of occupants) regarding the potential of un-confirmed or unknown victims. Exposures - Protect nearby property that may become affected by the fire. This is the first part of preventing the spread of the fire.

  5. Emergency procedure - Wikipedia

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    Before preparing a procedure, it may be appropriate to carry out a risk assessment, estimating how likely it is for an emergency event to occur and if it does, how serious or damaging the consequences would be. [3] The emergency procedure should provide an appropriate and proportionate response to this situation.

  6. List of law enforcement agencies in Texas - Wikipedia

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    There are over 150 federal law enforcement offices in Texas. including those for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Customs and Border Protection; Drug Enforcement Administration; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; United States Secret Service; Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division; Naval ...

  7. Immediate action rapid deployment - Wikipedia

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    Immediate action rapid deployment (IARD) or rapid deployment, is a police tactic where first responders, typically regular police officers, actively confront a developing high-risk crisis. This is opposed to first responders acting to assemble a cordon around the crisis zone [ 1 ] and then waiting for specialized special response units to ...

  8. Public safety answering point - Wikipedia

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    Public-safety answering point in Kraków, Poland. A public-safety answering point (PSAP), sometimes called a public-safety access point, is a type of call center where the public's telephone calls for first responders (such as police, fire department, or emergency medical services/ambulance) are received and handled.

  9. Radiotelephony procedure - Wikipedia

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    All stations with long-distance (e.g. out-of-state) message traffic; All stations with a call sign suffix in a specified range (common in Amateur radio nets) All stations in a geographic region; Net call The call sign of the net A specific form of a collective call, used mainly in military nets, to indicate that the NCS is calling all stations.