To be eligible for the first responder community, you must be in one of the following occupations:
Emergency medical technicians
- Emergency medical technician (EMT) - Basic, medium, or advanced
- Flight nurse (Transport nurse)
- Medical helicopter pilot
- Mobile intensive care nurse
- National Ski Patrol Member
- Paramedic
- Pre-Hospital Registered Nurse
Firefighters
- Airport fire operations
- Commissioner (Fire Dept.)
- Engineer
- Fire medical officer
- Firefighter - career, volunteer, and retired (federal included)
- Fire marshal
- Helitack
- Lieutenant
- Past chief
- Probationary
- Supervisory forestry technician
- Wildland firefighter/ prescribed fire burn manager
Law Enforcement Officers
- Animal control officers who are credentialed as a LEO
- Assistant chief officer
- Auxiliary & reserve sheriff deputy or police officers
- Bridge and tunnel officers
- Chief officer
- Conservation officers
- Correctional supply officers
- Corrections officers (at either government-run or private / for-profit institutions)
- Emergency response team (ERT)
- Inmate recovery team (IRT)
- Quick response strike team (QRST)
- Special emergency response team (SERT)
- Courthouse security
- Detention officers (at either government-run or private / for-profit institutions)
- Family court officers
- District Attorney
- State’s Attorney
- Fire marshals who are certified law enforcement officers
- Fleet reserve
- Game warden
- Investigator (state or local)
- Jailer (at either government-run or private / for-profit institutions)
- Jail Administrator / Assistant Jail Administrator
- Juvenile institutional officers (peace officer)
- Metro transit police
- Park rangers (state)
- Parole officers
- Patrol officer
- Patrol deputy
- Police officers (federal, state, and local; campus police) - active & retired
- Pretrial services officers (and officer assistants)
- Probation officers (and officer assistants)
- Railroad police officers
- School resource officers
- Sheriff's deputy
- State troopers
- State police inspector
- Tribal police
- Wildlife officer
Federal law enforcement officers and agents
- Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) (All Employees)
- Amtrak Police Department
- Bureau of Prisons (BOP) (All Employees)
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (All Employees)
- Customs & Border Patrol (CBP)
- Department of Corrections
- Department of Defense (for example: Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), etc.)
- Department of Fish and Game
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Air Marshals
- Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO)
- Federal Protective Service
- Transportation Security Administration Agent (with a red shield on their badge ONLY)
- Department of Interior
- US Attorney
- US Park Police
- US Park Rangers
- Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (Special Agents)
- Department of Justice (DOJ)
- Department of Public Safety
- Department of State
- Department of the Treasury
- Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) (All Employees)
- Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) (All Employees)
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- SSA Assistant Special Agent
- US Marshals Service
- US Postal Inspectors (Postal Inspectors & Criminal Investigators)
- US Secret Service
911 Dispatchers (for select offers only)
- Fire communications officer
- Police or EMS dispatcher
- Police compliant officer (911 dispatcher)
- Police service representative (LAPD only)
- Public safety telecommunicator (PST)
Not eligible
The following occupations are not eligible for first responder verification with ID.me:
- Advocate coordinator
- Ambulance driver (can qualify only if they can also document being an EMT or paramedic)
- Animal control officer (not credentialed as a LEO)
- Animal services officer
- Assistant superintendent
- CERT team member (Community Emergency Response Team)
- Chaplain
- Correctional food service supervisor
- Civilian deputy
- Civilian employee (staff, employees, secretaries, administrative assistants, etc.)
- Classification officer
- Code enforcement officer
- Community outreach specialist
- Community service aide
- Coroner
- Corrections staff (civilian employees)
- Court bailiff
- Court services officer
- Crime lab analyst
- Crime scene analyst/technician
- Crisis intervention specialist
- Custody specialist
- Department of agriculture
- Deputy clerk
- Detention technician and communications officer
- Emergency management volunteer
- Emergency medical responder (EMR)
- Emergency medical services (EMS)
- FEMA
- Fire Corps volunteer
- Forensic services
- Highway worker / road patrol
- Laboratory / evidence tech
- Medic
- Medical examiner
- Medical professional (doctor, nurse, pharmacy technician, etc.)
- Ocean lifeguard
- Parking enforcement officer
- Police service technician
- Peace Corps
- Police badge (no name)
- Police reserves (volunteer)
- Police recruit
- Recreation specialist
- Sanitation worker
- Search and rescue team member
- Security officer
- Ski patrol (unless licensed as an EMT)
- Traffic officer
- Transportation security officer for TSA
- Trial court officer
- Victims witness assistant
Eligible Canadian first responders
In Canada, the following groups are eligible to verify their first responder status:
- Certified EMT / Paramedic, including Emergency Medical Attendant (EMA)
- State-certified firefighter
- Law enforcement officers, including:
- Federal, provincial, and municipal police officers
- Royal Canadian mounted police officers
- Correctional service Canada (CSC) officers
- First nations reserve police officers
- Canadian forces military police (CFMP) officers