Say you want to be a firefighter or paramedic within Firestone, or just have the certifications because you might want to be certified for a LEO department. You can go to Firestone Fire Academy and get those certifications. Being certified, it commonly can enable you to join the Stapleton County Fire Department. More importantly, it gives you the ability to save lives. If you don’t have these certifications, whether or not you know what to do, you can cause many issues, or wind up in jail.
So what happens when your certifications get revoked? You can’t preform anything medical related in the field. Nor can you join the Stapleton County Fire Department, if you are in it already, you automatically get suspended or terminated for not having the correct certifications.
Being that these certifications can be very valuable and very helpful to people, it is a big decision to revoke someone’s certification. So should that power be given to the Academy that hands out these certifications?
I say no. There are many reasons revolving on why I say this, but the most important reasons why it shouldn’t is that again it gives the department a lot of power, and it also gives power over another department, and if you want to be more technical then it could be more then one department that could be affected.
In FFA (Firestone Fire Academy), there are only 2 people that have the ability to revoke your certification. Only 1 actively does revoke people’s certs, but that would be the Chief Training Officer, and the Director. Training Officers and Junior Training Officers have no say on what happens with your cert. It even isn’t specifically stated that CTO+ can do this, they have just been able to do it and say they can for a while (http://prntscr.com/k6jcni). It also being that with just adding a card and archiving a card on a trello by one person without consideration from multiple people gives unnecessary power to the department. It could lead to where certs could be revoked for bias reasoning, or creating evidence to prove that someone did something wrong, but in turn didn’t.
Being said that FFA has control over your cert, they technically have control over a whole department, and could affect many other departments. The SCFD can’t operate without having members that are certified, and if they don’t have enough members on duty then many people can die on the streets of Firestone. It is also essential for LEO personnel to get paramedic certified, because most times they are first on scene of an incident. SCFD vehicles are laggy and our response time isn’t quick, but us being able to have a head start on treatment can save the victim/s lives. If all LEOs were EMT-B certified, then many more people would still be living in Firestone.
So since FFA is the only department that revokes people’s certifications, and from time to time there may be people that should not be allowed to get a cert for certain reasons, who should be able to revoke people’s certs? The Department of Public Safety, who does oversee FFA and the SCFD, should be able to. They investigate claims made on the department, and they oversee all public safety of firestone, and if something happens in a department or in game, such as medical malpractice, the group could then decide if the person should be able to keep they’re certification. It can also assure more security and safety to the public.
A fire or paramedic certification is very important, and something not to be messed around with. And being that could decide a person’s fate, it cannot just be controlled by 1 or 2 people.