Public Safety Communications (PSC)
Discipline Definition
Individuals who, on a full-time, part-time, or voluntary basis, through technology, serve as a conduit and put persons reporting an incident in touch with response personnel and emergency management, to identify an incident occurrence and help to support the resolution of life-safety, criminal, environmental, and facilities problems associated with the event. This category includes: Call Takers, Shift Supervisors, Medical Control Centers, Dispatchers (Emergency Medical Services [EMS], law enforcement, and fire).
Course Recommendations
Courses are not required to be taken in a specific order, and these may not be the only courses for which you are qualified.
- Program B: PER-260, WMD Technical Emergency Response Training
- Program F: PER-266, Instructor Training Certification
- Program Q/Program R: MGT-360, WMD Incident Command: Capabilities, Planning and Response Actions (WMD/All Hazards) and PER-262, Hands-On Training (Program R is the same as Program Q, with the class order inverted.)
- Program K: MGT-300, Managing Civil Actions in Threat Incidents (MCATI) Command
- Program N: AWR-160-1, WMD Standardized Awareness Authorized Trainer Program
