Southeastern Community College offers numerous education and training programs preparing future and existing professionals for careers in public safety. Among these are fire and rescue, emergency medical services, in-service law enforcement, and emergency management. These comprehensive offerings include short-term workforce training and ongoing continuing professional education and training. SCC offers public safety training classes in the following areas:
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Training
Courses are designed to prepare competent entry-level EMS personnel in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning domains required for the pre-hospital emergency setting. Courses include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)
- Basic Life Support
- Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
- Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
- Paramedic
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support
Technical Rescuer Series
Courses are designed to encompass the total spectrum of the Emergency Rescue Technician Program. Courses include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Technical Rescuer Technical Rescuer (Vehicle)
- Technical Rescuer (Ropes, Trench, Structural Collapse, Water Rescue, Confined Space, and Machinery and Agriculture)
Fire Service Training
Fire Service Training can be taken directly to the individual firefighting groups to meet their needs. Training sessions are held in the local fire departments, allowing personnel to be trained as an organized group and utilize equipment they would ordinarily use in controlling fires. Fire Service courses include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Fire Fighter Certification HazMat Level One Responder
- Fire Life Safety Educator Training
- NC First Apparatus Driver-Operator Certification (Driver Operator Training, Pump Operations Training, and Aerial Operations Training)
A more detailed listing of classes can be obtained by contacting the Public Safety Division.
Basic Law Enforcement Training
This certification-related course is designed to equip the student with the basic skills, knowledge, and ability to function as an inexperienced law enforcement officer in the State of North Carolina. This class is a pre-requisite for law enforcement officer certification in this state. The minimum number of required hours per block of instruction in this course are set by the NC Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission.
Law Enforcement In-service Training
Law enforcement courses are specially designed as in-service education for those engaged in law enforcement activities and are provided at the request of local law enforcement agencies. Program emphasis is on legal and technological law enforcement advancements. Workshops and courses such as the following are offered in many areas, but are not limited to:
- Bloodbourne Pathogens
- Career Survival Topics
- Chemical Tests for Alcohol
- Court Structure & Procedure
- Criminal Investigation
- Crisis Intervention Training
- Department of Public Safety In-Service Training
- Detention Officer Certification Course
- Field Training Officer (FTO)
- Fingerprint Identification
- Firearms Training
- Hazardous Materials
- Juvenile Law
- Laws of Arrest, Search, and Seizure
- Legal Updates
- Motor Vehicle Laws
- Narcotics Investigation
- Police Administration
- Police-Community Relations
- Radar Operator
- Radar Re-certification
- Riot and Crowd Control
- SWAT Operators School
- School Resource Officer Training
- Traffic Accident Investigation
- Traffic Interdiction
For more information on our Public Safety training programs, visit our program website at www.sccnc.edu/continuing-education-2/public-safety/.