NECI 911 Ch. 2 Review

Legal responsibility for an action.

• Liability

• Standard of Care

• Vicarious liability

• Negligence

Responsible for your actions or actions of anyone they supervise.

• Liability

• Standard of Care

• Vicarious liability

• Negligence

Reasonable actions under the circumstances in comparison to the actions of others with similar training and direction in a given situation.

• Liability

• Standard of Care

• Vicarious liability

• Negligence

Failure to exercise the degree of care ( standard of care) considered reasonable ( under the circumstances), resulting in an unintended injury to another person.

• Liability

• Standard of Care

• Vicarious liability

• Negligence

When you accept the assignment and place yourself in a position to respond to the public’s outcry for public safety, you must perform. ( You must perform because you excepted responsibility).

• Duty to perform

• Breach of Duty

• Proximate Cause

• Damages

· When you fail to act similar as others performing the same duties under similar circumstances, as you were trained to do or directed to do in agency policies and procedures, you have breached your duty to perform. (When you fail to do what you have been trained to do).

• Duty to perform

• Breach of Duty

• Proximate Cause

• Damages

If there was a “cause and effect” relationship between the actions or inactions of the 911 Officer and the subsequent injury or worsening of a condition of the plaintiff, the proximate cause can be established. (Was what you did a cause of something that happened?)

• Duty to perform

• Breach of Duty

• Proximate Cause

• Damages

When someone suffers the loss of something that causes them financial expenses or the inability to make a financial gain, he or she usually would have had or only the inability to function as he or she usually could; these are considered damages. (They lost something or the chance to do or make something.)

• Duty to perform

• Breach of Duty

• Proximate Cause

• Damages

When someone deliberately neglects to perform their prescribed duty or behaves in a manner contrary to established policy and procedure, training procedures. ( You don’t do something you know you are supposed to do.)

• Gross Negligence

• Negligence

• Proximate Cause

• Damages

There are three types of law

• Constitutional, Criminal, Civil

• Family, Contract, Property

• Civil, Criminal, Property

• Tort, Constitutional, Criminal