正确决策: 警务专业人员基于证据的决策指南
虽然警务部门的首要职责一直以来都没 有改变——即保护人民的生命和财产安 全——但是，警方该如何履行自己的职 责这一问题变得日益复杂。在过去的20 年间，犯罪率在整体上有所下降，但是 公众要求警方进行响应的方面却越来越 多。要处理这些报警电话通常需要更为 先进的设备和接受过相应专业训练的人 才。而且，很多辖区还要求他们的警察 部门将自己的职能与其他紧急情况响应 部门相结合，包括消防和医疗急救服务 等。
Responding to Pre-Hospital Events in BC: Time to Rethink the Current Model of Service Delivery
On October 29, 2013, the BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) implemented changes to their BC Ambulance Service Resource Allocation Plan (RAP) resulting in a significant number of codes being downgraded to Code 2 (routine) calls instead of their previous designation as Code 3 (lights and sirens) calls. According to BCEHS the process undertaken to make … Read more
Emergency Motor Vehicle Crashes in British Columbia
When emergency vehicle collisions occur, especially at speed with lights and siren, they tend to evoke heightened media attention as well as public concern and interest. While these concerns are understandable given the sheer size and mass of heavy emergency vehicles (i.e., fire/ladder trucks) relative to much lighter, non-emergency vehicles, such concerns must be placed … Read more
Revisiting the Safety of Smart Meter Installations in British Columbia
In June of 2011, BC Hydro commenced implementation of its Smart Metering Program, which involved converting every residential property in BC from legacy metering to wireless technology smart meters. This Smart Metering Program involves replacing existing electrical meters that are now becoming obsolete, with a comprehensive wireless smart metering system. As of August 2013 an … Read more
A Dynamic Risk-Based Framework for Redesigning the Scheduling of Fire Safety Inspections
This paper introduces a risk-based, data-driven framework for redesigning fire safety inspections. This framework incorporates information about previous inspections performance, the responsible person in charge of the property, the property use, and the structure type. This alternative method for scheduling fire safety inspections takes into account the likelihood of compliance, thus enabling fire services to … Read more
A Review of Surrey Fire Service’s Motor Vehicle Accident Response Assessment Model
In 2010, the BC Ambulance Service and Surrey Fire Service collaborated on a project to look at efficiencies for emergency services response to Motor Vehicle crashes. This report describes the results of an analysis of data provided by Surrey Fire Service on a pilot project examining the utility of an assessment tool to identify the … Read more
Intermodal Shipping Container Fire Safety
More than 16 million shipping containers are being used to transport goods around the world, and millions of these containers become surplus every year and are repurposed as buildings or structures.
Eliminating Crime: The 7 Essential Principles of Police-based Crime Reduction
Here is a book that provides the tools for any police organization to drive down crime. It sets out the proven principles for making a community safe. It will allow police leaders and agencies to design their own strategies to solve the unique challenges to make any community safe.
British Columbia Ambulance Service Resource Allocation Plan: An Analysis of Recent Changes to Call Codes
On October 29, 2013, the BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) implemented a change to their BC Ambulance Service Resource Allocation Plan (RAP) resulting in 74 incident codes being downgraded to Code 2 (routine) calls instead of their previous designation as Code 3 (lights and sirens) calls. BCEHS has asserted that the changes were made to … Read more