PUBLIC SAFETY
The Office of Professional Development (OPD) has also made great strides in employee training and development. OPD provided all department personnel with Continued Professional Training and Perishable Skills Training in accordance with the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. The training covered a variety of topics, including de-escalation training. De-escalation training is a critical skill for employees working in high-pressure situations, as it helps them to defuse potentially dangerous situations and avoid the use of force. The Office of Emergency Management partnered with the Irvine Unified School District and several other Irvine-based schools to facilitate a table-top exercise on violent intruder response and recovery. This exercise involved a simulated scenario of a violent intruder situation, allowing the schools to practice their response plans and identify areas for improvement. Through this exercise, the Office of Emergency Management helped to enhance the schools' emergency preparedness and coordination. The Office of Emergency Management acquired and implemented a new traffic modeling software. This software is being used to enhance the City's evacuation planning efforts by providing more accurate traffic flow predictions during emergencies. With this software, the Office of Emergency Management can better coordinate evacuation routes and timing, which can help to improve the City's emergency response and reduce the risk to residents. The Office of Emergency Management developed the capability for a Mobile Emergency Operations Center (EOC), which serves as a redundancy to the City's primary EOC. This Mobile EOC can be deployed quickly in the event of an emergency, allowing the City to maintain its emergency response capabilities even if the primary EOC is unavailable. The Office of Emergency Management developed and implemented Stop the Bleed training for all City staff. This training provides critical knowledge and skills to City staff on how to respond to bleeding injuries, which can save lives in an emergency situation. By equipping City staff with this knowledge, the Office of Emergency Management has helped to enhance the City's overall emergency response capabilities. Technical Services researched, procured, and implemented a long-term trial of new vehicle connectivity devices through the Whelen Cloud. This platform created by the leading manufacturer of emergency vehicle equipment, Whelen Engineering, allows for enhanced vehicle logging, diagnostics, and over-the-air software updates to be completed through a web-based application. This program helps public safety personnel locate vehicles, view vehicles responding to an emergency call, and log vehicle data. This equipment is also being integrated into a pilot program to test the capabilities of a next-generation emergency vehicle preemption system. This system, the Opticom Cloud, will use live vehicle speed, direction, and location from the Whelen Cloud to give responding personnel a green light far in advance of arrival at the intersection. This will increase safety for both the responding personnel and the motoring public, while also reducing emergency response times.
FY 2023-25 Adopted Budget
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