Law Officer Special Issues, Topics & Supplements

Tapping Into Federal Funds: Your Ultimate Grant Resource

Public safety communications centers hoping to improve infrastructure, upgrade equipment or add staff need access to funding outside the usual budget sources. Grants are often the answer to this need.Tapping into Federal Fundsis your ultimate grant resource. It offers an introduction to grants and who offers them, and describes the paths that three different agencies took to find funding for major projects. Finally, the supplement offers grant-writing tips from a grant reviewer.

Terrorism Preparedness

Operations involving acts of terrorism combine the worst parts of mass casualty incidents with hazardous materials situations. These hazmats with an attitude are dangerous to EMS providers, firefighters and police officers, as well as the general public. That's why we created the "Response Guide for Chemical & Radiologic Threats: Are We Ready?"

The War on Trauma

Terrorism, whether it originates domestically or outside our borders, produces the very real threat of school shootings and other mass-casualty incidents that are in many ways similar to combat. EMS systems must be prepared to respond to such incidents with the right tactics and the right tools—many of which were developed on the frontlines of the War on Terror.

This supplement, which is sponsored by North American Rescue, Inc., presents proven concepts, techniques and products from military trauma care that have immediate application to civilian EMS.