How to enhance the police's ability to respond to emergencies

(1) Strengthen the police's crisis awareness

To enhance the police's ability to deal with emergencies, we must first strengthen the police's crisis awareness, strengthen crisis education, and establish the concept of being prepared for danger in times of peace. awareness, to be safe without forgetting danger, to survive without forgetting death, and to always maintain sensitivity to prison emergencies. Prisons should use various channels such as meetings, blackboard newspapers, mobile phone text messages, and slogans to promptly publicize the destructive power that various emergencies may have on the prison and the threat to the police's own safety, cultivate the police's vigilance and awareness of participation, and continuously enhance the police's Quick and efficient emergency awareness and proactive communication awareness can prevent the police from being indifferent to emergencies and having nothing to do with themselves.

(2) Establishing a "pyramid" talent team for emergency response

Due to differences in age, personal physical fitness, and job duties, prison police officers cannot be qualified to handle emergencies. The elite of the situation, just as not all soldiers can become generals. Therefore, when it comes to cultivating the police's professional ability to handle emergencies, prisons must seek truth from facts, maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses based on the police's personal circumstances, and conduct emergency handling training in batches and layers with different focuses.

1. Establish an emergency response leading group. The emergency response leading group is the top of the "pyramid" and is mainly composed of members of the prison leadership team. The warden serves as the leader of the leadership group, and other prison leaders are members of the group. They are responsible for the overall prevention, overall command and handling of prison emergencies. decision making. The prison leadership members are all experienced and experienced, and have the opportunity to participate in emergency response training organized by the Ministry of Justice and various colleges and universities. They have a broader vision, richer emergency decision-making capabilities and capabilities than ordinary police officers. Command ability.

2. Establish an emergency special police team. The SWAT team is the part closest to the apex of the pyramid. Their responsibilities are to provide police assistance, guard against surprise missions, handle major prison situations, and respond quickly to emergencies in prisons. The number of members of the SWAT team is about 30 to 50. The members are selected by the prison from young police officers in the department and prison area who have good psychological quality, good physical fitness, good grappling skills, strength and quick reaction speed. The members of the SWAT team must include a certain proportion of prison district and department leaders, correctional police officers, doctors, psychological counselors, etc. This part of the police force should be trained as an expert team ("seed") in emergency response, mainly to cultivate their keen insight, rapid response ability, emergency command ability, emergency negotiation ability, psychological crisis intervention ability, etc. The five most basic and necessary abilities. SWAT team members must be familiar with all emergency response plans in the prison and know the key points and preventive measures in the prison. Moreover, it is necessary to ensure that 3-5 SWAT team members are stationed in the supervision area 24 hours a day to arrive at the scene as soon as an emergency occurs in the prison. Before the prison leaders arrive at the scene, they must command the leaders on duty and the police on duty in the prison area simultaneously. Summon police forces from other prison districts nearby to quickly carry out emergency response work, buying time for the prison to respond quickly.

3. Establish a backbone team in the prison area. The backbone team of the prison emergency department is composed of leaders from each prison district. This group of personnel is the middle part of the pyramid, with more people than the police force. They are the indestructible backbone of emergency response work. Because each prison district has at least one leader on duty every day, if emergencies occur at the three major sites, the district leader is the first person to direct and handle the situation before the SWAT team arrives. Therefore, the district leader must be familiar with the procedures of the district. All emergency response plans must have a comprehensive understanding of the prison situation and crime situation in the prison area, and the prevention status of the three key sites in the prison area must be clearly understood. When an emergency occurs in the prison area, the police in the area can be immediately mobilized to respond quickly.

4. Build a front-line police emergency response team. Frontline police officers directly manage criminals at the three major sites. They are most likely to encounter emergencies and their personal safety is most threatened. This part of the police is the bottom part of the "pyramid". They are the most fundamental and basic force in handling emergencies. Therefore, the ability of front-line police to deal with emergencies is the most important.

When an emergency occurs, they must first ensure their own safety, issue an alarm as soon as possible, and quickly conduct on-site command and control according to the emergency response plan.