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public safety communications and training

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"Public safety is composed of many entities, including jurisdictions, organizations, individuals, and stakeholders, each requiring communications to fulfill their distinct and often critical missions. First responders are central to public safety and generally include police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and other first responders across all levels of government. Public safety personnel have unique communications requirements, such as mission critical voice, which differ from those typically provided commercially because of their direct role in saving lives, preventing injury, and limiting property loss. Public safety communications must interoperate and work with jurisdictions at all levels, from local to national. Public safety briefers consistently highlighted mission critical voice as their most important communications requirement. Public safety users rely on private land mobile radio (LMR) systems to support mission critical voice because neither commercial networks nor current Long Term Evolution (LTE) standards currently support it". All security guards are required to complete an 8 Hour Pre-Assignment Training Course prior to applying to the Department of State for a Security Guard Registration Card. That course must be followed by a 16-Hour On-the-Job Training Course for Security Guards within 90 days of initial employment as a security guard. Guards also must complete an 8-Hour Annual In-service Training Course for Security Guards every year. Armed guard applicants must have a valid New York State pistol license pursuant to Penal Law 400.00 and must complete a 47-Hour Firearms Training Course for Security Guards prior to applying for a Special Armed Guard Registration Card. Starting one year from the date of completion of the 47-hour firearms training course, holders of a Special Armed Guard Registration Card also must annually complete an 8-Hour Annual In-service Training Course for Armed Security Guards.