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# Civil Unrest Response: Personnel

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Follow this guidance to prepare personnel for civil unrest incidents:

### Uniforms

            - Wear civilian clothes when reporting to and returning from duty.
            - Remove badges from uniforms and consider wearing casual uniforms.
            - Keep personnel IDs, keys, wallet, etc., on your person or otherwise secured.

### Equipment

            - Carry a radio and lights.
            - If issued by department, wear ballistic protection in accordance with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 3000, Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER) Program.
            - Secure items such as scissors and stethoscopes on your person.
            - Minimize carried equipment, such as harnesses, extra tools, pocket contents, etc.
            - Always carry a radio (be sure to regularly charge/swap batteries).
            - Require personnel to wear full protective equipment while riding in apparatus. This may include eye protection, turnout or rescue gear, gloves, etc.

### Planning

            - Review civil unrest-specific organizational and jurisdictional protocols and guidelines.
            - Establish a family communication plan to share information with responder families.
            - Provide emotional support for personnel and their families.

### Operations

            - Per NFPA 1500, Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellness Program, fire and EMS personnel should not be used for crowd control operations.
            - Work in pairs or teams.
            - Chief and company officers must maintain accountability of apparatus and staff.
            - Develop communications code words for secure communications of emergency actions (building or area evacuation, apparatus/station abandonment, etc.).
            - Designate rally points should apparatus or stations need to be abandoned and pass on to members. These may change due to situational changes.

Page last reviewed: Sept. 15, 2022

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