600-12 Emergency Notification Flashcards
Houston Police Department personnel shall inform individuals of emergency and death messages
in a sensitive, compassionate, and timely manner.
After the officer’s next of kin has been notified, a public information officer from the________ shall release the name to the media.
HPD Office of Public Affairs
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.
Homicide Division
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.
Vehicular Crimes Division (VCD)
When an officer determines that a seriously injured or deceased individual is a foreign national or foreign government representative, that officer shall _______.
notify the Criminal Intelligence Division (CID).
The department’s _______ is responsible for processing requests from other governmental agencies to deliver emergency and death messages.
Emergency Communications Division (ECD)
As it relates to the emergency notification of foreign officials if the incident occurs after normal business hours the officer shall contact the ________.
Crime Analysis & Command Center (hereinafter referred to as Command Center).
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:
Contact the ECD dispatcher for further details regarding the emergency or death message.
Deliver the message personally to a responsible individual, preferably an adult.
Contact a supervisor for further instructions if unable to deliver the message personally.
Notify the ECD dispatcher of the outcome after completing the assignment.
Except as authorized by this or another General Order, employees shall not
release the name of ANY deceased person until the next of kin has been officially notified.
If an officer is seriously injured or killed and the spouse or a close family member resides in the greater Houston area, another officer of higher rank shall
contact the spouse family member in person
AND
provide transportation as needed.
f 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, the injured officer’s supervisor shall
notify the Command Center.
