CFPD to Seek Accreditation
Benchmark for completion: 2012
Since 2009, the Cunningham Fire Protection District (CFPD) has been working toward agency accreditation through the Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE). The primary purpose of a fire service agency is to prevent fires from starting, to prevent the loss of life and property when a fire does occur, and to provide a means to evaluate a variety of other locally related services, such as emergency medical response, to satisfy the needs of its jurisdiction and citizens.
Agency accreditation will further assist the CFPD in becoming goal-directed, future-oriented, well organized, properly equipped, staffed and trained. Each is critical if we are to meet the needs of our citizens and provide a methodology to continually evaluate and improve our services.
Through Accreditation, a systematic evaluation can be accomplished to determine what is happening within an organization, focusing on whether or not the organization is meeting the goals that are commensurate with its responsibility.
 With today’s accountability where the focus is on re-imagining, measuring, benchmarking, consolidation, reduction, and analysis, we must continue to ask ourselves if there is value added in the actions we are taking within our organization. Accreditation is a proven model to assist fire and emergency service professionals in continually improving the quality and performance of their organizations.
Standard of Response Coverage
As a major component of accreditation, the Standards of Response Coverage (SOC) was adopted in July of 2010 and serves as the CFPD’s “Integrated Risk Management Plan: Standards of Cover” document. The purpose for completing such a document was to assist the CFPD in ensuring a safe and effective response force for fire suppression, emergency medical services, and specialty response situations in addition to homeland security issues. View the Standards of Response Coverage document.
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