Originally Posted by
bae
I participate several times a year in active-shooter training - my agency goes into such things side-by-side with our local law enforcement. I keep body armor, a mass casualty medical kit, a triage kit, and my forcible entry tools handy for when this sort of thing may happen.
Here it is a bit problematic, as our main K-12 school campus has multiple buildings and hundreds of students, and there is likely only a single sheriff on duty who can respond, and his response time may be 30+ minutes. He can likely have backup within 15 minutes. Whereas we can have 20 of my department’s members there within 3-5 minutes, 40 within 10 minutes, and 60-80 of us within 30 minutes.
So do you wait around for the sheriff, when half the department probably has kids inside that school?
Reading up on the Beslan incident is a bit interesting...