Rescue Students Now Learning to Handle Calls for Police Help

Published: 29.08.2011 11:12

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This academic year, the 20 students studying to be rescue leaders at the Academy of Security Sciences' Väike-Maarja Rescue College will study under an expanded curriculum where they will learn to handle police-related emergency calls.

"Estonia is preparing for transition to one emergency number, 112," noted emergency center director Janek Laev. "Starting from the end of 2014, after the transition, rescue dispatchers at the center must know how to handle all emergency assistance alerts  as required."

Rector of the Academy of Security Sciences Lauri Tabur said that by the transition, the school will have trained the first 60 universal rescue leaders. 

The Rescue College has been teaching the handling of non-police-related 112 calls for the last five years.

 

Kristopher Rikken

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