600-12 Emergency Notification

Question 1

Houston Police Department personnel shall inform individuals of emergency and death
messages in a…

Answer 1

sensitive, compassionate, and timely manner.

Question 2

REQUESTS FROM OTHER AGENCIES

The department’s _____ is responsible for processing requests from other governmental agencies to deliver emergency and death messages.

Answer 2

Emergency Communications Division (ECD)

Question 3

REQUESTS FROM OTHER AGENCIES

When ECD personnel receive a request from an outside agency to deliver an emergency or death message, the message shall be assigned to a field officer in the area of the message destination for delivery.

The responding field officer shall do all of the following:

a. Contact the ECD dispatcher for further details regarding the _____

b. Deliver the message personally to a _____.

c. Contact _____ for further instructions if unable to deliver the message personally.

d. Notify the _____ of the outcome after completing the assignment.

Answer 3

[Emergency Communications Division (ECD)]

1) emergency or death message.

2) responsible individual, preferably an adult

3) a supervisor

4) ECD dispatcher

Question 4

FOREIGN NATIONALS

When an officer determines that a seriously injured or deceased individual is a foreign national or foreign government representative, that officer shall notify the _____.

If the incident occurs after normal business hours the officer shall contact the _____. The Command Center shall notify an on-call CID supervisor regarding the incident.

CID shall contact the _____ to notify the appropriate consulate or embassy.

Answer 4

1) Criminal Intelligence Division (CID)

2) Crime Analysis & Command Center (hereinafter referred to as Command Center)

3) Houston office of the U.S. State Department

Question 5

OFFICER-INVOLVED INCIDENTS

In the event that a citizen is seriously injured or killed as a result of a department related vehicular crash, the _____ shall be responsible for notifying the next of kin as soon as possible.

The _____ shall be responsible for notifying the next of kin as soon as possible in all other situations involving a citizen who is seriously injured or killed as the result of an officer-involved incident.

Answer 5

1) Vehicular Crimes Division (VCD)

2) Homicide Division

Question 6

SERIOUSLY INJURED OFFICER

Except as noted below, no employee shall release the name of any seriously injured or deceased officer to a representative of the media. After the officer’s next of kin has been notified, a _____ shall release the name to the media.

Answer 6

public information officer from the HPD Office of Public Affairs

Question 7

SERIOUSLY INJURED OFFICER

If an officer is seriously injured or killed and the spouse or a close family member resides in the greater Houston area, _____ shall contact the spouse or family member in person and provide transportation as needed. If another officer who is close to the family desires to accompany the officer delivering the notification, such arrangements shall be made.

Answer 7

another officer of higher rank

Question 8

SERIOUSLY INJURED OFFICER

If the seriously injured or deceased officer’s immediate family resides outside the greater Houston area, and no other close family member resides within the greater Houston area, _____shall notify the Command Center. The Command Center shall…

The Command Center shall provide a telephone number the family may call for more specific information.

In either case, the Command Center shall contact the _____ for further assistance.

Answer 8

1) the injured officer’s supervisor

2) request a law enforcement agency close to the family’s residence to personally contact the officer’s family.

3) HPD chaplain or family-assistance officer