Critical Incident Response Training Bureau

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The Critical Incident Response Training Bureau provides New Mexico's public safety response agencies with a training curriculum that emphasizes a coordinated response effort in all emergency situations. We assist agencies by offering a balanced training program designed to overcome the command, communication and coordination problems that commonly occur between agencies when responding to emergency situations. In addition, we provide a certification program for Public Safety Telecommunicators that adheres to established certification requirements. We also assist the Basic and Advanced training programs as needed. We enthusiastically train and educate for the purpose of professional career development.

Critical Incident Response / Public Safety Telecommunicator Academy Staff Information

Mark Christopher has retired as Bureau Chief of the CIRT Bureau. We wish him well as he moves on to other challenges. The Bureau Chief position is currently vacant. Please refer any questions regarding the Bureau to Deputy Director Najar or CIRT Bureau staff.

Vacant, Instructor

Vacant, Instructor

Monique Lopez, Administrative Assistant

Monique was born in Santa Fe, NM, and moved to Denver, CO. at the age of seven.  She returned to New Mexico four years later and has called Santa Fe home since the age of eleven.  Monique graduated from the SER Academy in July of 2004.

She began her career at the 1^st Judicial District Court in the Domestic Violence Division in 2003 as a secretary. She left state employment in August of 2005 to deliver her first child and returned to the state in February 2006 with the Department of Public Safety Training and Recruiting Division.  Monique was then promoted and began working for the Critical Incident Response Training Bureau as an Administrative Assistant in December of 2006.