New SWAT tactics for school

shootings
School Safety Partners

New training and technologies

allow schools to help SWAT teams
quickly neutralize active shooters
and rescue hostages.

DENVER, Colorado (School Safety

Partners) August 23, 2010 -- Here is
an exclusive look at the latest police &
SWAT tactics for Columbine-style school
shootings and violent intruder attacks.

This full-scale exercise at a high school in

Utah shows how Federal training for
Exclusive video of a full-scale active shooter exercise
school staff now allows schools to partner
up with local first responders and improve school safety.

New technologies turn basic school radios and surveillance cameras into tools that help police
and SWAT teams achieve the pinpoint accuracy of a smart bomb when it comes time to
neutralize violent offenders.

Applied more broadly to handle other types of crises, technology that provides interoperable
communications between schools and first responders can be the primary enabling technology
for the community partnering envisioned at the Federal level, and promoted by the U.S.
Department of Education through their Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools
(REMS) grant program.

According to Michael Dorn, executive director of Safe Havens International, a leading school
safety organization serving REMS grant winners, "interoperable communications requires
human interoperability" and this calls for schools to learn how to use 2-way radios to contribute
to a crisis response with the best that they have to offer -- in-depth knowledge about their
facilities, their staff, and their students.

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Special training in 2-way radio interoperability for schools has been spearheaded by
SchoolSAFE Communications, a provider of the bridging technology for schools in states that
are ready for it. The company has just launched 21 new pilot programs in 10 states across the
country.

This video was produced using only the unrehearsed radio dialog that was captured during the
exercise and the synchronized video footage caught on 8 different surveillance cameras
mounted outside and in the school hallways.

As you follow the shooters you will notice exercise facilitators standing by to guard against
mishaps, operating the smoke machine, and dispensing ammo to the perps as they take
hostages.

The maneuvers of the three law enforcment teams seen here are based on the information they
receive moment-by-moment, with no scripting.

You will hear the school principal help provide crucial behind-the-scenes support so that the
teams can quickly box in the gunmen before rushing through the last door to take them down.

Produced by School Safety Partners

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