Transcript Police/Fire/EMS Interface

“All Hazard”
Emergency Preparedness Training
Higher Education
COLLEGE /UNIVERSITY
ACTIVE SHOOTER
Tabletop Exercise
Purpose/Objectives:
 Examine current Policies, Procedures, Governing Laws, Processes for
Threat Assessments, and Actions during an active shooter/killer
incident on your college campus.
 Promote greater understanding and ability to apply the Incident
Command System (ICS) for Higher Education in an incident.
 Through self-examination, make improvements to your Plan(s) as an
outcome of the exercise.
Prevailing Law
What is the prevailing law that governs emergency procedures and
notifications for Colleges and Universities?
 Discuss your currently Policies, Procedures, and Practices, that are in
place to insure compliance with the prevailing law, with concentration
on the following requirements:
 Annual Report - Disclosing campus security policies
 Crime Statistics - Timely warnings to the campus community
about crimes that pose an ongoing threat to students and
employees
 Access to Timely Information – Threats to students and employees
and Police and/or Security Department public crime log
 Campus community sexual assault victims are assured of certain
basic rights
How Are You Complying with The Requirements that Govern
Emergency Procedures and Notifications for
Colleges and Universities?
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Colleges and universities, both those with and without on-campus student residential
facilities, are required to have emergency response and evacuation procedures in place.
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A policy statement must articulate how the institution will confirm there is "a significant
emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of
students or employees occurring on the campus."
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Each institution must disclose how it will assess which segment is at risk and how each
segment will receive the notification.
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Each institution's procedures must ensure that emergency notifications will be issued
"without delay, and taking into account the safety of the community."
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Institutions must also have and disclose procedures for testing their emergency response
and evacuation procedures at least once annually.
Putting Policies into Practice
Scenario – Information:
 Alan is an 18 year old first year student at your collegiate institution.
 On Thursday, you learn from other classmates that Alan has been relentlessly
hazed since the start of school. The same bullies also cyber harass him on social
media.
 Alan is so upset and angry by this hazing and harassment he has told other
students he wishes they would all just die.
 It has also been brought to your attention Alan just posted the following
message on Facebook: "'I will be on a shooting rampage tomorrow on
campus,' 'hopefully I kill enough people to make the national
news…'"
Discussion/Evaluation:
 What are your policies at this point (hazing, cyber
and in-house bullying)?
 What type of intervention are you going to do to
prevent something from occurring?
 Do you get the police involved?
 Do you document and if so where?
Scenario – Information: (continued)
Putting Policies into Practice
Using Emergency Response & Notification Systems
 On Friday morning, before anyone can investigate
thoroughly, you hear a series of popping noises you think
are fire crackers.
A few moments later more popping sounds ring out and you
hear what sound like students screaming in the hallways.
From a nearby surveillance camera you can see Alan
running through the library with what appears to be a rifle!
ICS Structure
Questions:
 What are your immediate responses to this in-
progress incident (call 911, announce a lock down,
warn the campus community, etc.)?
 Who from your institution assumes incident
command ?
POPUP
MESSAGE
 What other School related Incident Command
System (ICS) positions can you think of that you may
activate and who will fill them?
Scenario – Information (continued):
 You begin to hear sirens in the distance from Emergency Response
personnel.
 The sounds of gun fire have stopped and the location of the shooter
is not known.
 On a surveillance camera monitor you observe several students who
appear seriously injured lying on the floor of the library.
 The sirens are getting closer and emergency personnel start to
arrive.
Scenario – Information (continued)
 The police arrive at the campus, contact the college liaison, and
continue to assess the incident.
 Due to the recent Facebook posting, the school informs the police they
think the shooter may be Alan.
 The police want you to pull any files you have on
Alan and turn them over to them.
• The police send in an Active Shooter Contact Team. The Contact Team
moves through the college, towards the library, looking for the shooter.
Discussion/Evaluation:
 Who is the College Campus ICS Liaison for
Police/Fire coordination?
 What do you tell them about Alan?
 Do you release your records to the police?
 What type of assistance can you offer?
Police Response:
 While inside the library, the Contact Team begins to hears more gun
fire and moves towards the sound of shots. The Contact Team makes
contact with the shooter. The shooter, later identified as Alan, is taken
into custody.
 Rescue Teams are deployed to the library and find 17 wounded and 7
dead.
Discussion/Evaluation:
 There are now a number of agencies on campus. Will
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Unified Command be established? What areas of
responsibility does the college ICS retain?
What are the notification processes regarding casualties?
Do you open your emergency operations center, if so how
does that happen?
Do you close your College/University, if so how long?
Media relations – PIO?
Stop Action – Hot Wash:
 Did your Prevention/Mitigation, Preparedness, Response,
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and Recovery plans/processes achieve your desired results?
How is your college’s incident command understanding in
dealing with this rapidly expanding complex incident?
How prepared/experienced is your college in interacting
with local Law Enforcement/Fire/EMS agencies? What
training has been done?
Did your communication tools/plan to notify the campus
community function as intended?
What can be done to improve campus security/ law
enforcement relationships and operations?
Action Plan:
The lessons learned during this table top exercise will
lead to an action plan to:
 Keep Doing _____
 Stop Doing _____
 Start Doing _____
 Re-evaluate ______
Additional Resource Information
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Related Laws
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA)
Other Resources
Search Clery Act Crime Statistics
Summary Of 2008 Clery Act Amendments
"Congress Amends Clery Act In Response To Virginia Tech Shootings" (December 2008)
How To File A Jeanne Clery Act Complaint
Legislative History
Congress Reforms Campus Crime Reporting (1998 amendments)
Covering Crime On College Campuses by S. Daniel Carter (Sept. 2000)
Student Media Guide to the Clery Act (Student Press Law Center)
Questions?