Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Emergency Services: Emerging Tools and Technologies for First Responders addresses the latest tools that can support first responders in their ultimate goal: delivering their patients to safety. It also explores how new techniques and devices can support first responders in their work by addressing their safety, alerting them to accidents in real time, connecting them with medical experts to improve the chances of survival of critical patients, predicting criminal and terrorist activity, locating missing persons, and allocating resources. Highlighting a range of topics such as crisis management, medical/fire emergency warning systems, and predictive policing technologies, this publication is an ideal reference source for law enforcement, emergency professionals, medical professionals, EMTs, fire departments, government officials, policymakers, IT consultants, technology developers, academicians, researchers, and students.

Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
•Crime Hotspot Detection
•Crisis Management
•Digital Forensics
•Emergency Patient Management
•Medical Resources Prediction
•Medical/Fire Emergency Warning Systems
•Predictive Policing Technologies
•Professional Training
•Public Service Management
•Vulnerability Management