Active Assailant Incidents: The Telecommunicator’s Role
Course# 21176
Provided by: Priority Dispatch
Hosted by: Stratford Public Safety Communications Center
Stratford Public Safety Communications Center
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2019
Time: 0800-1200
Location: Stratford EMS, 2712 Main Street, Stratford, CT . 06615
Intended Audience: Public Safety Dispatchers, Public Safety Responders
Cost: $99.00 / person
Description:
This four-hour course gives 911 dispatchers/calltakers an in-depth understanding of how to use the IAED Active Assailant (Shooter) Protocol to gather crucial information and rapidly deploy responders. This Protocol is available to all law enforcement, medical, and fire communication centers regardless of Academy membership or use of the Priority Dispatch System. Course includes a manual and scenario drills.
Police Priority Dispatch System (PPDS) Protocol 136 helps dispatchers/calltakers rapidly move through preeminent questions to collect crucial safety and logistical information for responders from those on scene including:
- Number of assailants
- Description of weapons involved and if body armor or a bulletproof vest is being worn by the shooter(s)
- If the shooter(s) was carrying anything (this could indicate explosives)
- Location of shooter(s) and/or where shots are being fired from
- Number of people injured, the severity, and their location
- Number of people trapped at the scene and their location
Protocol 136 also prepares dispatchers/calltakers to give a “zero-minute” response through the use of expert-written step-by-step Pre-Arrival Instructions (PAIs), based on the situation at the scene, to help victims maintain their safety until officers and paramedics arrive to help.
Course includes: Course manual and scenario drills
