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Overview
Critical incident response/special police operations is a program focusing on the principles and techniques for dealing with police emergencies such as hostage situations, bomb threats, barricades and terrorist incidents. includes instruction in crisis management, command procedures, incident containment, information collection and debriefing, first responder negotiation, victim and criminal psychology, site survey and surveillance, special weapons and tactics, interagency communications and joint operations, pre-confrontation and contingency planning, assault and rescue operations, security and crowd control, media relations, and post-operation procedures.
Highlights
School with the highest reported median starting salary ($124K) with a Master's Degree: University of San Diego
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Following are recommended careers for people who earn critical incident response/special police operations degrees, with color indicating the most common education attained by other workers.
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Explore schools that offer critical incident response/special police operations degrees and certificates
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Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.
We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.
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Related Programs
Top 10 similar programs
Following are related programs, ordered by those with the highest number of completions. You can explore a full list by pressing the more details button.
- Criminal Justice and Safety Studies
- Criminal Justice and Police Science
- Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Administration
- Criminology
- Fire Science
- Fire Prevention and Safety Technology/Technician
- Corrections
- Forensic Science and Technology
- Specialized Study in Corrections and Criminal Justice
- Specialized Study in Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services
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this program is part of a larger collection of programs: Protective Services. Is there a different program that's close to this program that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
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Context: Percentage of Minority Graduates
Minority students comprise a higher percentage of graduates than in 93% of other programs.
