Palos Hills Emergency Management Agency

About

We are charged with assisting and protecting the community by mitigating against, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from all disasters.

Story

Palos Hills Emergency Management Agency’s mission is to provide public safety in any event needed in the city of Palos Hills and many other surrounding cities and Cook County. Our department can handle many situations to include disaster response, medical support, search and rescue, traffic control, and township event public safety. Our department is responsible for coordinating disaster mitigation. We also apply our skills to emergency planning, disaster response and recovery. Members on our department receive training and conduct disaster exercises.

What can you expect if you join our department?
Respond to emergency and non-emergency situations
We provide manpower during large scale events
We monitor the weather
We provide event security
We provide traffic control
Most of all we save lives!

What is required to join our department?
Be 18 years of age for an officer and 16 years old for the cadet program
Complete an application
Pass a background check
Come in for an interview
Complete a 6 month probationary period.

The Palos Hills Emergency Management team consists of Unpaid Professionals. We enjoy giving back to our community and have fun while doing it.

Mission

Palos Hills Emergency Management Agency is charged with protecting the community by mitigating against, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism or other man-made disasters.

We value the contributions and dedication of the personnel who staff the emergency response and management systems. We employ and deploy the best available technologies in support of our mission.

Impressum

Comments posted to our page will be monitored and we reserve the right to remove inappropriate comments: including those that have obscene language or sexual content, threaten or defame any person or organization, violate the legal ownership interest of another party, promote commercial services or products, or are not topically related to the particular posting.

Our social media policy allows access to be terminated by blocking the user if users post unacceptable content to our Facebook page.
We will post photographs taken at incidents or local events to our Photo Albums on Facebook. It is our policy not to tag individuals in photos, but to allow other Facebook users to tag themselves and others in photos.

To request removal of specific images(s) please send an
email with your contact information including telephone number and email address to [email protected]