The Indiana Department of Homeland Security will be actively monitoring EMS certification exams at Muncie Fire Department following allegations of widespread cheating.
“Additional staff have been re-routed to make sure the exams are proctored and handled properly. We have sent additional staff from the Fire & Public Safety Academy to sit in on those proctors, and there are plans where we’ve basically taken over oversight on the state certification exams,” IDHS public information officer David Hosick told WTHR.
Staff members, who called out one or more high-ranking MFD officers, told the investigative reported that 'hundreds of questions and answers from state and national certification exams" were collected and shared.
“The leadership who’s hosting these classes will proctor the exams. They’re taking pictures of computer screens, then down the road actually showing future students pictures of those tests and the questions,” one of the staff members told the reporter.
Other agencies investigating the cheating include the National Registry of EMTs, State EMS director and the Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office.
