Teachers Get 'Active Shooter' Training
Strongsville police are visiting each school to teach staff how to handle someone with a gun
Strongsville police are going into each school in the district to train teachers and staff in new methods of handling an active shooter. Police Chief Jim Kobak said the department has conducted intruder alert drills in the schools for years, but is introducing new techniques aimed at giving staff more power. "Never before have we asked teachers to engage a shooter," Kobak said. "Now we're giving them an option -- if you're faced with no other choice, you can go ahead and attack that intruder." The training includes drills and officers firing blanks for added realism, as well as to teach teachers to distinguish between different types of weapons. Superintendent John Krupinski said he spoke with employees at one of the first schools to …
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Ken McEntee
10:31 am on Thursday, February 21, 2013
Lyn. I agree. Many law enforcement experts have been telling parents for years - this could be life or death. Screw the bureaucracy. Instruct your kids to get the hell out of the building if at all possible and run like hell. In fact, there was a report last year by a former cop and tactical training expert called the "Parent's Guide to School Shootings," which was highly critical of the accepted… more ›