Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC will work collaboratively with your organization to determine the most effective and cost efficient solutions to the challenges faced. Whether you are seeking policy recommendations, strategic review, operational plans, or help with regulatory compliance issues, Polaris has the professional resources to meet your needs and assist your organization to achieve your goals.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC team of experienced public safety accreditation managers, assessors, and team leaders are available to assist your organization with preparing for the accreditation process. Our expertise includes the following accreditation elements:
If your organization is pursuing accreditation or would like to use one of the components for professional excellence, Polaris can custom tailor a plan to meet your needs.
The potential for an active shooter incident has become an everyday reality for all communities within the United States. To minimize risks to first responders, victims, and impacted communities, it is critical that diverse public safety disciplines work together to plan and train collaboratively for active shooter incidents. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the Polaris Public Safety Solution, LLC team can help public safety agencies within your community work together to:
Our law enforcement, fire service, and EMS subject matter experts have first-hand experience with responding to active shooter incidents and are recognized leaders in helping communities to address the threat of an active shooter incident.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC can assist your organization with identifying the appropriate type of apparatus to meet your response needs and developing the detailed specification required to obtain the desired vehicle(s). Our experts have extensive experience with identifying apparatus requirements, documenting the detailed specification, and monitoring the apparatus build process to ensure compliance with the specification for fire service, EMS, and law enforcement apparatus. Our expertise ranges from traditional response vehicles (e.g. fire engines, ambulances, patrol vehicles) to specialized rescue and response vehicles (e.g. command vehicles, mass casualty response vehicles, building collapse and trench rescue vehicles, and mobile air bottle filling station vehicles).
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC subject matter experts are ready to work with your business on fire code and regulatory issues that are pertinent to your industry. Our consultants are skilled at helping private sector partners gain a better understanding of how fire codes and regulations impact the execution of business functions and to develop strategies for working within the parameters of applicable codes and regulations. Polaris experts can also assist your organization to develop suggested revisions to codes and regulation for presentation to local authorities.
Consolidation of fire jurisdictions is a complex process that requires leaders from affected jurisdictions to consider multiple factors, with some of the most important being the people affected by the changes, the cultures of impacted fire jurisdictions, money, politics, and the law. Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC consultants can help your organization/group of organizations considering consolidation by conducting a comprehensive analysis of the potential costs and benefits of a consolidation so that policy makers can make informed decisions. Once a decision to move forward with consolidation is made, Polaris team members are available to work closely with impacted fire jurisdictions to develop and document a complete consolidation plan, including merging of policies, operational directives, standardizing personnel qualifications, and training.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC subject matter experts can provide technical assistance with developing and implementing programs and planning initiatives that meet the needs of public, private, and volunteer EMS services that operate in urban, suburban, and/or rural environments. Our team members are versed in all aspects of EMS system operations and patient care delivery, with a specialized focus on:
Fire Prevention is a critical function of every fire department, but is often an area that is challenging to staff with appropriately skilled personnel. Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC team members have extensive experience with operating effective fire prevention programs and can help your organization to assess and strengthen fire prevention practices such as code enforcement, plan review, system testing, public education, and fire investigations. Our experts can help your organization to assess current and prospective strategies for funding fire prevention activities, including the feasibility of adopting a staffing model that incorporates regionalized and/or civilian staffing resources.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC subject matter experts are available to help your organization with conducting a study of potential fire/EMS station locations to determine if said location(s) will enable timely response in compliance with the National Fire Protection Agency-specified performance objectives for turnout and on-scene arrival times. The study will minimally include a response time analysis from potential locations to all areas within the designated response area and assessment of whether existing, conceptual, and/or potential repurposed structures can effectively support the functional requirements of your agency.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC personnel can help your organization to create a multi-year financial plan that supports the attainment of both short- and long-term goals and objectives. Polaris consultants will analyze revenue and expense trends; assess current financial management strategies, accounting operations, and practices; identify best practices to strengthen internal controls; and develop recommendations for improving efficiencies in the planning and budgeting process. Polaris team members can also help to develop policies and procedures in support of the financial plan.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC team members are skilled at assisting fire departments with preparing for an audit by the Insurance Services Office (ISO). Polaris team members are well versed in the ISO audit process and can help your department to compile and organize the required information in a way that will best demonstrate to auditors the full capabilities of your department and facilitate an efficient audit process.
Public safety agencies are continually challenged to do more with fewer personnel resources. Leaders must make decisions on how to allocate personnel resources across the jurisdiction served to fulfill core public safety responsibilities, as well as on how personnel should be deployed tactically to mitigate an incident. Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC consultants are skilled at analyzing manpower and staffing issues to provide your organization with researched recommendations for manpower allocations that are defensible. Polaris consultants are also available to assist your organization with modifying existing plans, policy documents, and training materials to reflect changes to manpower allocation that result from the study.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC consultants are experienced professionals who have served in management positions in public safety agencies; taking on responsibility for management of organizational functions and/or leadership of planning and execution for special programs and projects. Our expert consultants can help your organization to improve performance through analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement. Our consultants can also provide one-on-one support and mentoring for personnel tasked with management responsibilities; helping these individuals strategize potential solutions for challenges faced while further developing their leadership skills.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC consultants are skilled at helping organizations to study current operations with the goal of identifying opportunities for improvement in terms of cost, service delivery, and/or performance parameters. Polaris team members will develop recommendations for improving operations and work collaboratively with organizational representatives to create plans that can be realistically executed to implement selected recommendations.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC consultants are experienced professional who have firsthand experience serving in front-line, leadership, and management roles in public safety agencies, supplemented by advanced degree coursework in individual areas of specialization. This breadth of education and experience enables Polaris to assist organizations with conducting an objective assessment of the effectiveness of organizational structure and management practices. As part of the systematic study of your organization, consultants will identify opportunities for creating efficiencies and recommend strategies and best practices for improving the effectiveness of organizational management activities.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC team members are skilled at working with organizations to develop and administer customized promotional exams for fire, police, and EMS personnel who wish to be promoted to technical and supervisory positions. Polaris is committed to ensuring that the exam questions developed are directly related to responsibilities of the promoted rank and can be used to effectively demonstrate differences in performance. Polaris’s promotional testing service includes developing the written exam questions; documenting the exam development, administration, and scoring processes via a written report; scoring all exams; conducting an analysis of each question post-exam; providing a rank-ordered list of exam grades; documenting the analysis of overall test results; and providing a written defense for all challenges submitted by test takers.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC consultants can help your organization to conduct a comprehensive risk hazard analysis. The risk hazard analysis process used by Polaris assesses the potential for and impact of the hazards faced by your jurisdiction, both in terms of impact on public safety agency response and maintenance of operations. Consistent with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s hazard analysis planning guidance, for each identified hazard Polaris will profile the hazard events, inventory the assets available during the first 24-hours to respond to incidents, and project an estimate of loss caused by the hazard.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC is committed to the principle that a multi-disciplinary approach to special event planning is required in order to best protect the health and safety of attendees and affected communities throughout the event and to prepare for effective mitigation of any unplanned incidents that may occur. Our consultants possess extensive experience and are skilled in planning for and managing all aspects of special event public safety operations for large-scale events and events with a federal National Special Security Event designation. Polaris’s multi-disciplinary team can help your organization and community plan public safety operations in support of a special event and to develop contingency plans for handling the unexpected. Our consultants are available to become active members of your planning team, critical reviewers of plans developed, and/or management support for event day operations.
The threats for which public safety agencies must be prepared to respond continue to evolve. Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC consultants are skilled at helping organizations prioritize threats and develop the strategic plans required to be as prepared as possible to protect the health, safety, and property of the communities served. Polaris team members are firm believers in the value of using a multi-disciplinary approach to planning and will ensure that the strategic plans developed identify the roles of all response partners and will work to incorporate all partners in the planning process. The vast strategic planning experience of our consultants enables us to facilitate identification of effective solutions to the complex situations for which you must be prepared.
Polaris Public Safety Solutions, LLC consultants have extensive experience in developing dynamic training curricula for a wide range of public safety training topics for in-person, self-instructed, and distance learning training models. Our experience includes development of didactic, hands-on, and hybrid training programs. Our subject matter experts will work with your organization to identify training goals, objectives, desired delivery model, and any resource material upon which the training must be based before developing research-based course content and support materials. As appropriate, Polaris staff can assist your organization with obtaining any required certifications and approvals for the curricula developed. Polaris personnel are available to conduct train-the-trainer sessions and/or provide training staff to conduct the program.
