In addition statistics indicate that many of those who apply and are hired do not make it though the training for the job.
This provides evidence of importance when it comes to choosing the right candidates to begin with so that those who are hired are more capable of making it through the training.
According to Furey newly hired dispatchers are also affected by the attitudes of the dispatchers already working therefore it is crucial to maintain a high morale among the dispatchers already in position.
Furey suggests two recruiting tools to attract and find potential employees for dispatch jobs. The first thing he recommends is word of mouth. According to Furey workers who are happy and content in their position are inclined to recommend others that they believe would be a good fit for the job as well.
The second recommendation that he makes is to have potential employees that have applied for…...
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Bechet, Tom (2000) Developing Staffing Strategies That Work: Implementing Pragmatic, Nontraditional Approaches.(human resources planning) Public Personnel Management
Furey, Barry (2005) 911 center staffing: a burning issue.(COMMUNICATING)
Firehouse Magazine
Helton, Kim (2004) Case study: Pennsylvania's changing workforce: planning today with tomorrow's vision. Public Personnel Management
People looked at the attack as a tragedy that could happen to anyone. Not only Americans died that day. There were many other nationalities that are included in the 2,973 fatalities. Therefore, they are also taken as common enemies of the world. They waged a war not only to U.S. ut to all nations who looked at their method as inhuman and unacceptable. They did not think about the lives they took or the repercussions of what they believed to be a noble sacrifice. They are common enemies, therefore, because of the whole world suffered from the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy.
September 11, 2001: it was the last working day of someone's mother, father, brother, sister, daughter or son. It was a firefighter's last dispatch. It was someone's last day of life. Fatalities were not identified as Americans, Canadians, Germans, European or any other nationalities; they were seen as…...
In spite of the theories regarding an American conspiracy, there is still no solid proof to sustain the speculations.
In most cases, including the 9/11 terrorist attack, teenagers are among the first to be affected and influenced by it. Ever since the 9/11 attacks, many American children have been convinced that the Arabs are their enemies and will not stop from harassing the U.S. until they are dealt with. "Growing up in a military family, second-year business economics student Bridgette Tuquero knew since she was young that she wanted to continue the family tradition. The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks only reaffirmed her beliefs." (Indravudh, 2006)
Dan Nelson, a fourth-year history student, joined ROTC last spring, but said he has always intended to enter the military after graduation - an ambition that stems from the impact he felt after the events of Sept. 11." (Indravudh, 2006)
The Home Office Minister pointed out in one of his addresses that "the most significant terrorist threat to the UK and to UK interests abroad comes from Al Qaida and associated networks. Senior AQ members, including its leader Osama bin Laden, have stated publicly that the UK and UK interests are a priority target for them. There have been a number of attacks specifically targeting UK interests based overseas. In November 2003, five people died in an Al Qaida car bomb attack on the ritish Consulate and HSC in Istanbul." (Home Office, 2007)
Therefore, the role of the agencies in the UK is essential, taking into account the need to prevent the threats, pursue their authors, protect the population from any attack, and prepare in the eventuality of one.
3. Latin America is as well a rather vulnerable area, prone to the increasing power of the terrorist groups. At the same…...
911 Commission: the Clinton Administration's Response in 1998 versus the Bush Administration's Response to 2001
After the Cold War, the state of American intelligence was in incredible disarray. The Cold War had ended. The purpose of all of American intelligence efforts had been shifted from a Cold War focus on the Soviet Union to a more chaotic, diverse, and internationally and ethnically divided world. The 9/11 commission, when comparing the Clinton Administration's response to the 1998 Al Qaeda bombings of American embassies, admitted that during this period of world history the Clinton Administration was still in a difficult and transitional world period, and domestically, the nation was uncertain as to how to go forward. The Clinton Administration made a cautious response that did not fundamentally reconfigure the systems of intelligence gathering in the nation, or the bureaucracy of the intelligence agencies in the United States. This was difficult to do…...
911 and eyond Presage an Era of New Terrorism? What Problems Does this Pose in Terms of Risk Management?
For airports and the airline industry worldwide, the events of September 11, 2001 were absolutely catastrophic, especially in the United States, and resulted in major changes in risk assessment and security procedures. In the United States, all airline security was removed from the hands of the airlines and private contractors and turned over to the federal government. Essentially, the Transportation Security Administration took control of the screening of passengers, cargo and baggage. ecause it was the most influential country in the world and the largest market, the U.S. was also able to insist that other countries follow its revised security procedures as well, or be denied access to American air space. Security procedures that had been in place for decades were radically overhauled and intensified, since this generation of terrorists was…...
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Breckenridge, J.N. And P.G. Zimbardo 2007. "The Strategy of Terrorism and the Psychology of Mass-Mediated Fear" in M. Bongar et al. (eds) 2007. Psychology of Terrorism. Oxford University Press, pp. 116-36.
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They also allow for a police department to be connected to a local, county, state, and federal network of criminal justice databases (Computer-Aided Dispatch Software esources, n.d.).
Typically emergency calls for service are automatically routed to dispatchers. When these calls are received the CAD system will recommend a unit assignment based upon a number of factors. These include: the location of the incident in question, they type of call that it is, and the availability of units for dispatch. Another feature that CAD systems have is to keep an online history of all calls that are taken. This history is usually kept for a six-month time period. This allows the dispatcher to have access to any prior calls regarding specific addresses, which may be helpful for the officer that is responding. It also maintains notes about locations that might contain important information for the officer. An additional helpful feature of…...
Secure After 911?
Is the United States more secure or less secure following the attacks of September 11, 2001? The position of this paper is that the U.S. is in fact more secure. Even after the bombing at the Boston Marathon in April, 2013 -- an example of a domestic terrorist event -- it can be said that America is more secure than it was prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
hy is the U.S. more secure now?
Firstly, there have been changes made in a number of aspects of life in the United States. A peer-reviewed article in the journal Middle East Quarterly points to several changes that are clearly intended to make the country more secure. The main government buildings in the nation's capital are now surrounded by "…ugly concrete blocks," and the street in front of the hite House -- Pennsylvania Avenue -- is now closed to…...
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Works Cited
Boyd, Dallas, Dunn, Lewis A., and Scouras, James. "Why Has the United States Not Been
Attacked Again?" The Washington Quarterly, 32.3 (2009): 3-19.
CBS News. "Yemen: U.S. drone strikes kill 5 al Qaeda members." Retrieved May 19, 2013,
Specifically, the actions of the FBI, CIA, and the American government may have played a role in America's lack of preparedness for surge and terrorist actions (Posner).
Interstate
At the interstate level, international relationships are viewed through the interactions of states with each other. In this level of analysis, policy can be understood through the often that reciprocal relationships between individual countries (Goldstein).
At this level of analysis, the terrorist attacks can be understood within the context of the interactions of individual states. Specifically, the interaction of the United States with Islamic states and Israel can be seen as linked to terrorist acts. rites Posner, "how could America support the terror state of Israel, he asked, and then cry foul when the underpowered struck back?"
Global
The global level is a worldview approach to the analysis of international relations. The social, economic, and political structure of the world whole is seen as the strongest…...
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Works Cited
Goldstein, Joshua. International Relations, Fourth Edition. Pearson Education, 2000.
Geopolitics
According to the 911 Commission eport, in effect, the U.S. was transformed. The people killed in these attacks included more than 2,600 at World Trade Center, 125 at the Pentagon, and 256 on the four planes which were more than the causalities occurred at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
young Arabs of extremists group in Afghanistan were involved in it. In September 2001, the terrorists warned the U.S. media, the congress, the government, and the public that they would kill large number of U.S. citizens. Usama Bin Ladin was behind the planning of these attacks.
War on Terror
eagan was the first who used "war against terrorism" in 1984 soon after bombing in Beirut in 1983. President Bush launched the war on terror on September 20, 2001 during his address to a joint session of congress when he said,
"Our 'war on terror' begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will…...
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Barnett, Thomas P.M. 2004. The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Berkley Books.
Bayoumi, Moustafa. 2008. How Does It Feel To Be A Problem: Being Young and Arab in America. Alwan For The Arts. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
Burgat, Francois. 2009. Europe and the Arab World: The Dilemma of Recognising Counterparts. International Politics, 46(5), 616-635.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2002. Moy Sand And Gravel. Feber and Feber.
9/11 Impacts
Events of 911 were a shock not only for the people of America but for the entire world. These events brought drastic changes in the world economy along with the political and sociological changes. Different people have different views about the impacts of 9/11 and the way it has changed the world. In order to do this paper, I interviewed my uncle and a neighbor friend. My uncle who is also my relative is about 50 years old and works in a software house while my neighbor friend is 26 years old and has just finished his studies.
My first question was about the impact of the events of 9/11 on their sense of security/vulnerability? Both of them gave almost same responses and I also agreed with their point-of-view. They replied that it was a shock for all of the Americans as they had no idea that their enemies could…...
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Dugan, Andrew. (2013). On 10th Anniversary, 53% in U.S. See Iraq War as Mistake. Gallup Politics.. Published 18th March 2013. Retrieved 7th September 2013.
The Guardian. (2011). Afghanistan and Iraq wars not worth fighting, say a third of U.S. veterans. Associated Press. Published Wednesday 5th October 2011. Retrieved on Saturday 7th September 2013.
S. Congress - show that as of 7:20 A.M. On November 19, 2006, the dollar cost for Iraq alone stood at $343,505,966,000. That's over $343 billion dollars spent on the war effort since Bush launched the American invasion on March 19 of 2003.
The National Priorities Project breaks down the cost of the war per state; for example, the war has cost California $43,514,789,000; it has cost the state of Nebraska $2,469,887,000 so far. It has cost Mississippi $1,336,643,290, and it has cost the devastated state of Louisiana (which is still trying to rebuild from Hurricane Katrina) $2,615,210,500 so far; imagine how many homes could be repaired, and how many affordable houses could have been built in and around New Orleans, with over 2 and a half billion dollars.
hat is the cost to marriages involving the soldiers? The Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy in Focus (IPSFP) writes that in…...
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Bennis, Phyllis, and Leaver, Erik. "The Iraq Quagmire: The Mounting Costs of War and the Case for Brining Home the Troops." The Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy in Focus. (August 31, 2005): Retrieved 21 Nov. 2006 at http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/quagmire/
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and, outlandish as it may seem to most Americans today, it is possible that... Chomsky's interpretation will be the standard among historians a hundred years from now. (November 20, 2001)
Since the time of its initial, mainly negative reviews, Noam Chomsky's sharply critical appraisal of America's hegemonic military endeavors, in the form of what Chomsky calls terrorism, as much so as similar aggressive acts anywhere else, by anyone else, may have (as a result of the now-protracted Iraq War and its lack of any resolution yet in sight, perhaps come into its own. For example, with no weapons of mass destruction (America's supposed reason for invading Iraq) found in Iraq; combined with the fact of the now hugely unpopular George W. Bush Presidency, based on the war's length and failure; and Bush's stubbornness about withdrawing American troops, Chomsky's major point within 911, that American military might and bullying of others…...
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Barsky, R. (1997) Noam Chomsky: A life of dissent. Cambridge, MA: The MIT
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Chomsky, N. 911. (October 2001) New York: Open Media.
During World War II, the same fate befell Fred Korematsu, a young Japanese man who violated a law against his presence in California. While he was at least provided with the right to contest his internment, the above-mentioned three persons were not. Indeed, they were not even provided with the right to see their families.
No war justifies such blatant disregard for basic human rights. Indeed, the war is not helped by detaining innocent people while the guilty are free to continue their destructive practices, because no investigation is made into determining the guilt or innocence of detainees. uch practices damage not only the international reputation of the country, but also the faith of its citizens on a domestic scale.
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Therefore the consequences of such restrictions and regulations have further complicated the case, the research activities have been either shunned or go unreported to avoid any confrontation with the investigation agencies, 'the climate of fear created by the Butler case is even threatening the ability of the United States government to detect bioterrorist activity, the labs in one state are no longer reporting routine incidents of animals poisoned with ICIN, a deadly toxin found in castor beans, for fear of federal investigation'. Stanley Falkow, a respected researcher at Stanford University in California, in his letter to the former attorney-general of the United States revealed that, 'Trying to meet the unwarranted burden of what the government considers 'bio-safety' is simply not coincident with the practice of sound, creative scientific research'. The government introduced a policy which highlighted the need for tight control over the biologists 'with access to dangerous pathogens',…...
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References
Robyn L. Pangi, Arnold M. Howitt. Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness. 2003. MIT Press. pp. 341
Anthony Kubaik. Stages of Terror: terrorism, Ideology, and Coercion as theatre History. 2000. Pp. 154.
Jamie Lewis Keith. Regulation of Biological Materials under Export Controls and Bioterrorism Laws. University of Florida Press. 2003.
Debora MacKenzie. U.S. crackdown on Bio-Terror is backfiring. New Scientist Publication. November 2003.
Job opportunities and working conditions for Canadian women during the period between 1880 and 1920 were fairly limited. Women were expected to be part of the labor force, but only until they married. At that time, men were expected to be the primary breadwinners and married women were discouraged from participating in the workforce. In fact, over all the progress towards women’s rights in Canada has been relatively slow.
Technically, the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century offered many opportunities for advancement for women’s rights. Women began to attend universities and....
Looking at how cars were invented and reality quickly became the go-to transportation method for much of the world is fascinating. While the automobile was invented in Germany and France, Henry Ford, who mastered automation and the mass production of cars, probably deserves much of the credit for the automobile’s early successes. In fact, Ford’s focuses on wages and affordability probably deserve credit for the rise of the American middle class, suggesting that the history of the automobile and the history of the middle class are inextricably intertwined.
Right now, there are a number of prominent conspiracy theories. These range from relatively innocuous conspiracy theories that do not really have a significant impact on the world to major conspiracy theories, such as 911 conspiracy theories, that could impact how people vote, undermine confidence in the government, and have a significant impact on individuals and society at large. To help you choose a conspiracy theory, Wikipedia has a good list of conspiracy theories along with a brief description of the conspiracy.
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Women in the Meiji Restoration (Japan): Examine the changing roles and experiences of women in Japanese society during the Meiji period (1868-1912), focusing on the impact of modernization and industrialization. Women in the Xinhai Revolution (China): Analyze the role of women in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911-1912, considering their contributions, the challenges they faced, and the impact of the revolution on their status. Women in the Korean Independence Movement: Explore the experiences and contributions of Korean women during the Japanese colonial period, highlighting their role in the independence movement and their struggle for equality. Gender and....
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