Here's a listing of recent active shooter drills that have taken place in my region:
https://www.google.com/search?q=albany+times+union%3A++active+shooter+drill
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Active shooter training reaches wide audience in Portage
JONATHAN STEFONEK jstefonek@wiscnews.com 1 hr ago
At the end of a full work day, 80 people packed into the Columbia County Administration Building for a three-hour seminar on active shooting incidents.
The presentation by members of the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and Portage Police Department gave the public insight into what is known about mass shootings in the United States and how the expectations for police and the public have changed.
“I got feedback from someone who was there, and she is actually a school district employee,” Police Lt. Richard Hoege said after the event, “and she said that she came away from it feeling empowered, like she realized there was something she could do.”
The presentation was led by Columbia County Sheriff’s Deputy Max Jenatscheck and Sgt. Todd Horn. Both were certified in Alert Lockdown Inform Counter Evacuate incident response in 2016 and found a need for community training in shooting response.
“… our first presentation was at Bethlehem Lutheran Church and that was in April of 2017,” Jenatscheck said. “It really depends on what people want. Some just want us to walk through their building or have us tell them what to do on that end, but that doesn’t work very well.”
More drills
The goal, Jenatscheck said, is to make the discussions and more active drills as common as fire drills.
Hoege, who took the lead for a portion of the presentation, estimates he has been involved in such presentations for about 10 years, going back to his time with the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office when he presented to Pardeeville and Cambria schools.
“It has been in the last couple years that there has been a lot of interest beyond schools for safety,” said Hoege. “It ramped up in the past two or three years and the amount of focus since Las Vegas, and the Parkland Shooting has been overwhelming.”
Since the beginning of the year, Hoege has been involved in 10 such training events, with seven in Portage, two in Fall River, and one in Poynette. Those have included active-shooter drills, threat assessment walk-throughs, policy assessments and a rescue task force exercise.
“One of the nice things about this district is that we are well ahead of other districts in terms of safety precautions we have taken through the years,” said outgoing Portage Community School Administrator Charles Poches.
He said the local district has been proactive about security.
“All of the exterior doors are locked, there is one secure entrance that is monitored by office staff and the only way you can get in is to buzz in and it is closed-circuit monitored so they can see who is coming and who is going,” Poches said.
Response time
The average shooting incident lasts 8 minutes, with emergency response and resolution averaging 19 minutes, Jenatscheck said.
Officers told the visitors Monday they had three main options when confronted with an active shooter situation: to run, to hide or to fight. The officials said people in a building should have an escape plan and take action quickly. As an alternative, people can barricade the door, turn out the lights and lay low until the danger has passed. If they are forced to confront an attacker, they were told to swarm using any potential weapon within reach.
The likely timeline set out by past events runs contrary to the speed of multi-agency drills, such as at Portage High School in 2016, in which volunteer students and staff fled the scene and acted as shooting victims for medical personnel to address. Over several hours law enforcement and EMS went over property layouts and binders of policies and procedures.
“Part of it is, that in an actual emergency situation everybody kind of follows their own script,” said Hoege. “Having gone through those in training, is what makes it go quick in a live event.”
During the presentation Monday, Jenatscheck quoted boxer Mike Tyson in saying: “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Jenatscheck said his presentation constantly evolves.
“Unfortunately, new incidents bring in better opportunities to explain things and train people,” he said.
Among a handful of questions, at the end of the night, one woman explained that she had worked in daycare and that in that capacity, she had been trained to get all of the kids out first, but since becoming a certified nursing assistant, she has been advised to leave patients behind, leaving her wondering about the difference.
Jenatscheck admitted he could not give a conclusive answer to that, but said that as a law enforcement officer, his position is to save as many lives as possible, and in a situation with seconds determining life and death, that means making uncomfortable decisions.
“I used the analogy: They get the tools, they get the wood, and it’s their job to build the shelf,” said Jenatscheck. “It’s getting people to think for themselves instead of a very specific, ‘What do I do?’”
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