The creation and transmission of the hierarchy of responders allows a dispatch unit to create the hierarchy and inform the responder computing devices of the hierarchy without input from responders. This allows the responders to focus on the tasks they are doing without first taking time to establish a hierarchy of those responders at the location or event. This creation of the hierarchy and informing the responder computing devices of the hierarchy may especially be helpful when responders from different responder agencies (e.g., police officers from a police department, fire fighters from a fire department, etc.) are at a particular location or event. Similarly, the creation of the hierarchy and informing the responder computing devices of the hierarchy may be helpful when responders from different organizations of a responder agency (e.g., fire fighters from one fire house of a fire department and fire fighters from another fire house of the fire department, police officers from a police department and detectives from the police department, etc.) are at a particular location or event.