Neillsville School District's Active Shooter Procedures, Part 2
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 -- 11:33 AM
-A new school year started just a few weeks ago and many students returned to elementary, high schools and colleges. And, unfortunately, within those few short weeks around the state and nation, there have already been reports of threats at schools, lockdowns and even shootings.Because of this, I spoke with Neillsville District Administrator John Gaier and Neillsville Police Chief Scott Klueckmann about the procedures in place at the Neillsville School District. Chief Klueckmann talked about the Neillsville Police Department's role in an active shooter situation.
Chief Klueckmann said, "We'd have probably law enforcement from all over responding. I was just sharing with Mr. Gaier some statistics on active shooters. Hard to believe that Columbine was now 16 years ago. 1999 was when this all started. And that incident specifically changed the way that we respond to this type of call. It used to be that patrol officers were trained to, basically, treat it like a hostage situation where they'd contain the threat, wait for the SWAT team to arrive and the SWAT team would handle the incident. And the result of that philosophy, or school of thinking, was 12 dead and 23 wounded in Columbine alone. So, after Columbine, and similar kinds of shootings, its really changed law enforcement's thought and we've learned a lot about these incidences."
Chief Klueckmann also stated that his department does practice those procedures from time to time and officers receive it in their training. Coming up on Wednesday, Chief Klueckmann will explain the chaotic scene that would occur in this type of situation.
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Part 1: http://cwbradio.com/news/?fn_mode=fullnews&fn_id=15088
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