DomAviator
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Aren't even volunteer safety forces examined psycologically? Maybe this 'Sgt. Bill' couldn't pass because he's a nutjob.
I dont know what "volunteer safety forces" are... But in my volunteer fire dept / emergency squad you have to pass a criminal background check, a fingerprint check, and a driving record check. You also have to get past the membership committee, and you have to pass a physical exam. There is no "psych eval" but along the way they weed the nuts out - either in the physical via medical history, or in the memebership committee just because we decide "OK hes gonna be an asswipe." I didnt go through training because I was already certified as a firefighter in another dept and as a National Registry EMT-Paramedic - but there are a million ways to be weeded out in the recruit academy or EMT / Paramedic classes too... I have given paramedic students doing their clinical ride alongs negative evaluations if they were reckless, stupid, bumbling, clumsy, panic prone, over eager or otherwise unfit... I evaluate according to the criteria of "would I want this person coming to my house if I called 911", factoring in of course how new they are and how bad the scene is. If its some 20 year old girl trying to start her first IV in the field during a three ring clusterfuck Ill cut her more slack than if its a guy who was an EMT-Basic for 5 years and who gets flustered in a nice house with a patient sitting on the couch calmly talking to us and extending his arm for the IV etc... The way the EMT / Paramedic certification works the instructors rely on the evaluations of the various EMT's / Paramedics / Nurses / Phlebotomists / Respiratory Therapists / Doctors and others who supervised and signed off on various clinical requirements. Not so much on EMT - cause if I recall correctly thats like 20 hours of ER and 10 hours of ambulance (it may have changed I got my basic EMT 22 years ago!), but at the Paramedic level people are evaluated by a hell of a lot of preceptors as they work their way through the requirements for ER, ICU/CCU , OR Observation, Psych, Labor/ Delivery, ambulance, etc... There are also "tasks" to be fulfilled... Like in my class on IV's we had to do it on the mannequin, then we had to do five on each other, then we had to do 5 hours of blood draws in the outpatient lab with at least 30 venipunctures, then we got signed off to do it in the field and in the ER. On intubation we learned on the mannequin, then on the cats, then we did 5 under the supervision of an anesthesiologist in the OR, and then we were signed off to go get 10 more in the ER or on the ambulance... Thus, you go through a lot of evaluators all of whom are prone to spot the nut cases....
As for the police reserve - here they have to meet all the same criteria as a full time deputy or officer. So they are screened exactly the same as a regular cop or deputy and they are certified the same as any other law enforcement officer. The only difference is they dont get paid, and go to the academy part time on nights and weekends. Reserve officers / deputies can be in any unit that paid ones can - including special units like Aviation, SWAT, EOD, Mounted Patrol, etc...
< Message edited by DomAviator -- 7/1/2008 9:52:52 PM >
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