Assignment: Professionalism, Accountability, Best Practices, and Ethics in Emergency Management

As within any profession, there are rules and standards of conduct in the field of emergency and crisis management.

Write a five to eight page paper in which you:

1. Determine two standardized actions and ethical practices that emergency management practitioners might implement in order to further professionalize the field. Provide a rationale for each action or practice.

2. Discuss at least two commonly used methods of ensuring accountability in emergency management procedures. Examine the effectiveness of each of these methods toward professional practice. Provide a rationale for your response.

3. Examine the importance of the three values proposed in the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Code of Ethics for emergency managers (discussed in Chapter 11 of the text). Provide one example or scenario that shows the importance of each value.

4. Use at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other related websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Assignment: Recruit Requirements

Write a three to four page paper in which you:

1. Describe the requirements for a recruit based on your state police as well as your local law enforcement agency.

2. Contrast the recruitment requirements between your state police and local law enforcement agency and rationalize the additional requirements at the state level.

3. Evaluate the positions to determine which is a more challenging career and which you would prefer. Explain your decisions.

4. Give one suggestion of a new requirement that is not currently included in the recruitment requirements for both your state police and local law enforcement agency.

5. Use at least two quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.