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EOC Position Credentialing Program

California’s public, private, volunteer, and tribal emergency services personnel serve their communities with professionalism and dedication. The potential for communities to require disaster assistance has significantly increased. Cal OES’ EOC Position Credentialing Program promotes an enhanced level of readiness and response for day-to-day emergencies and catastrophic disasters by ensuring qualified and competent staffing for Emergency Operations Centers.

The need for emergency services staff to deploy outside their jurisdiction has placed additional demands on emergency services systems. Existing mutual-aid systems must guarantee swift and successful support by deploying qualified emergency services personnel to any domestic emergency/disaster.

The History of CSTI

CSTI was formed under the CNG in 1971 to provide specialized training to law enforcement officers. CSTI was established at CSLO to provide military-type training applied to handling civil disturbances. This included both classroom and field tactical training. Over the years, the training offered at CSTI expanded to cover other types of emergencies (e.g., earthquake, terrorism) and a broader audience (e.g., emergency managers, fire, public works, administration, schools, etc.). As CSTI expanded to a more comprehensive training audience and to “all hazards” emergency management, it was determined that CSTI should be transferred from oversight by the CNG to OES. This transfer occurred in 1985 and the training institute remained at CSLO. In 1987 CSTI was given the responsibility to develop and deliver standardized training for hazardous materials responders.