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Police Stress by James D Property FBI Academy ~ORCEMENT rBl BULLETIN APRIL 1981. VOLUME 50. NUMBER 4 Contents Administration 1 XIII Olympic Winter Games-New York State Police Coordination Of Emergency Services By Lt. Leigh F. Hunt Personnel 7 Police Stress By James D. Sewell Training 12 Department Training Officers And The Training Process By George R. Bandies Equipment 16 An Automated Police Photo Lab By William J. Miederhoff Physical Security 22 Suicide Prevention At The County Jail By Dennis G. Donahue and Hugh E. Chavern The Legal Digest 28 Search Of Persons During Search Warrant Execution (Part 1) By Joseph R. Davis 32 Wanted By The FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation Published by the Office of Congressional and The Cover: Public Affairs. Two ofhcers check United States Department of Justice Roger S. Young equipment prior to Washington, D.C. 20535 processing a Crime Assistant Director scene. The officers are William H. Webster, Director Editor­Thomas J. Deakin members of the Assistant Editor­Kathryn E. Sulewski Criminallstics Unit of Art Director­Kevin J. Mulholland the Fairfax County. Va .• The Attorney General has determined that the publica lion Wflferl Editor­ Karen McCarron Potice Department. of thiS pe"odlcal IS necessary In the transaction 01 the Production Manager­ Jeffery l. Summers public bUSiness required by law of the Department 01 Jusllce Use of funds for p"nllng thiS pe"odlcal has been approved by the Director 01 the Of lice of Management and Budget through December 28. 1983 ISSN 0014-5688 USPS 383-310 XII1 IymplC· WGinterames NEW YORK STATE POLICE COORDINATION OF EMERGENCY SERVICES By LT. LEIGH F. HUNT New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Troop B Ray Brook, N. Y. April 1981 I 1 The United States has had the Development of the Disaster opportunity to host the Olympic winter Operational Plan games only three times during the past The first step taken in preparing 56 years. Lake Placid, N.Y. , was se• the disaster operational plan was to lected as the site at which these initiate correspondence with various games were to be held in 1932 and in major police departments within the 1980. United States requesting information On January 18, 1977, the Division pertaining to aircraft accidents and dis• of State Police was assigned as the asters. The New York State Police agency responsible for the coordina• manual was also researched for infor• tion and planning of security for the XIII mation on disasters. Olympic winter games. The New York Questionnaires were sent out to State Police then began the planning the ambulance squads and fire depart• phase of the largest task ever as• ments within the primary and second• sumed in its history. ary areas to ascertain what personnel Security planning involved not only would be available during the Olympic providing physical security for the ath• time period, their level of training, and letes but also addressing such areas a detailed list of the equipment pos• as traffic control, area policing, and sessed by each department. Lieutenant Hunt emergency services to residents and The material received from various visitors. It was anticipated that there sources was carefully reviewed and a would be an average 54,000 specta• plan was developed. This plan was tors each day during the Olympics. In tailored to the Olympic region with re• addition to the spectators, the athlete spect to the resources available. support personnel, as well as numer• In order to coordinate all organiza• ous other persons, would be present in tions that would be affected by the the area during this time period. All of disaster operational plan, meetings the Olympic events were to be held in were held with rescue squads, fire de• what was known as the primary area, partments, the American Red Cross, shown within the circle on the map. the Salvation Army, travelers aid, coun• (See fig. 1.) Since the estimated ty coroners, hospital administrators, 54,000 spectators would be coming and the New York State Department of into the primary area on only three Health and Transportation. During main highways, the emergency serv• these meetings, each topic covered in ices detail was faced with a formidable the disaster operational plan was re• challenge. viewed in depth. (See fig. 2). As a The responsibilities of the emer• result of the expertise of the individuals gency service detail were twofold. It present at the meetings, additions and was to prepare a comprehensive dis• deletions were made in each of these aster operational plan that would be areas. Also, as a result of these meet• Supt. William G. Connelie the source document in the event of a ings, the disaster operational plan was disaster and to coordinate all rescue tailored to the specific needs and re• squads, fire departments, and other quirements of each agency represent• service agencies within the primary ed. It was also decided that after the and secondary areas to insure proper completion of the Olympics, the plan responses on a day-to-day basis during would be amended by the New York the Olympic winter games. State Police to become a regional dis• aster plan. Training and Coordination of Emer• gency Services Within the Olympic Region After the completion of the disas• ter operational plan, the emergency services detail determined that the res• cue squads within the primary and sec• 2 / FB I Law Enforcement Bulletin ondary areas and the New York State Figure 1 Department of Health would, in all probability, be the most used during Olympic Transportation Region the games. The rescue squads, togeth- , er with their corresponding fire depart- ments, would be the core of the --~~ emergency services. A series of train- ­­­, .. __ _ CANADA NEW YORK - r----tmn:iD~----_- ing and information sessions were I , scheduled for these agencies. i, 11 \ During the initial meetings it be- I \ came apparent that the individual de- I I I partments worked strictly within their ' r I own specified areas and had little, if § ! any, contact with the other rescue I squads and fire departments in the region. The training programs allowed - personnel from the various agencies to • become familiar with each other and work toward a common goal. Training courses included a wide variety of subjects, including hypother- mia, triage (sorting of casualties), tech- niques of fighting propane gas fires, and vehicle extrication. The classes were held biweekly in the evening so that the volunteers from the rescue and fire departments within the area could attend. Because large numbers of buses would be transporting spectators into the area during the Olympics, a large bus corporation was contacted to sup- ply a driver and bus for training pur- poses. Safety measures to be taken in the event a bus was involved in an accident, procedures for shutting off the electricity to the bus, and emergen- cy entering and exiting were demon- strated and discussed. The training sessions commenced during the latter part of July 1979, and continued through the end of January 1980. Specific topics designed to famil- iarize the members of the rescue l.I """"""" ... _ ..... CIIIos squads and fire departments with var- o Ur*wxwpoflwct VII~ ious types of emergencies they might 00 ____ be confronted with during the 1980 0---• Olympic winter games were discussed. ,If ~A .donAirtlort Attendance at the various training sessions was outstanding. Volunteers "'­"'­­ continually made personal sacrifices in • order to attend the classes. April 1981 I 3 911 Emergency Communications Figure 2 "The favorable System Prior to the commencement of the Aircraft Incidents and Accidents comments and Olympics, an emergency 911 tele• Ambulance Duties Defined correspondence phone communications system was in• Bomb Threat Procedures received . are not stalled in the New York State Police Bus Accidents only a tribute to the headquarters which was used as the Casualty Information Center main command and control center dur• Clergy New York State Police ing the Olympics. The 911 system ful• Command Post­Ray Brook but to all of law filled communication requirements, Communications enforcement as well." tying together all emergency services. Coroners Duties An added benefit was that the 911 Doctors system remained intact after the com• Dentists pletion of the games, providing full Emergency Scene Command Post Invaluable training assistance was service to the area. Environmental Conservation rendered by the New York State De• partment of Health, which also supple• Department Emergency Services Provided mented the manpower of the rescue Fire Mutual Aid System During Olympic Winter Games squads during the games. Additionally, Floods The disaster operational plan was Hazardous Material arrangements were made through the used during the handling of an aircraft Hospitals Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Com• mittee to provide additional manpower accident which occurred near the Lake Hostage Situations Clear Airport, involving a twin-engine Intoxicated Persons and firefighting equipment. These two steps were taken due to the volunteer aircraft occupied by a pilot and two Lost Persons passengers. Two of the occupants of Maps of Area status of the rescue squad and fire department personnel. the aircraft were evacuated by helicop• Medical Evacuation ter to the Saranac Lake Hospital, Medical Mutual Aid Systems Emergency Services-Resources based at the Plattsburgh, N.Y., Air Mental Health Programs Available During Olympic Winter Force Base. The pilot and two passen• Morgue Facilities Games gers subsequently expired from hypo• National Guard Duties thermia and injuries received in the News Media and Information Fire departments and rescue accident. Disclosure squads would handle most major inci• The disaster operational plan was Public Utilities Emergencies dents during the games. However, it again used during the initial 5 days of Radioactive Material was also important to coordinate the the games when there were severe Red Cross activities of other involved agencies.
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