Tag Archive: School shooting training

Feb 13 2012

Farmington emergency responders train at schools

By Ryan Boetel, Farmington Daily Times Farmington is training to be ready for one of the scariest violent crimes. In recent weeks, all Farmington police officers and firefighters, and San Juan Regional Medical Center’s ambulance drivers and paramedics simulated a response to a school shooting. It’s the first time the city emergency response agencies have …

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Sep 10 2010

Dawson shooting spurred mental disorder spike

from CBC News A groundbreaking study on fallout of the 2006 shooting at Montreal’s Dawson College reveals that nearly one-third of students and staff suffered from psychological trauma in the years after the event. A groundbreaking study on fallout of the 2006 shooting at Dawson College in Montreal reveals that nearly one-third of students and …

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Feb 10 2010

Changes to Clery Act impact emergency plans, require drills

By Leischen Stelter, Security Director News New regulations scheduled to take effect this summer will require institutions of higher learning to change the way they develop and publish their emergency plans as well as how they report incidents. New amendments to the Jeanne Clery Act, which were enacted into law in 2008 in the wake …

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Dec 31 2009

Response: The active shooter quagmire

By Tom Carey, TheKlaxon.com Columbine, Virginia Tech and most recently the Fort Hood massacres have left police departments across America struggling to decide on what proper response protocols and tactics should be deployed in active shooter cases. These questions have stirred debate among police officials for the better part of a decade as the public …

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