UNCW Training and Resource Review

Lt. James WatkinsUNCW Police Department

Meeting Objectives Training origin Overview of current training Recognizing and acting on “warning signs” Available resources

Aug. 24, 2006: Christopher Williams, 27, went to Essex Elementary School in Vermont and, when he could not find his ex-girlfriend - a teacher, he shot and killed one teacher and wounded another. Earlier, he had killed the ex-girlfriend's mother. He attempted suicide but survived and was arrested.

Sept. 27, 2006: Duane Morrison, 53, took six girls hostage at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Co., molesting them and holding them for hours before fatally shooting one girl and then himself.

Sept. 29, 2006: Eric Hainstock, 15, took two guns into his Cazenovia, Wi., school and fatally shot the principal before being captured and arrested.

Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts, 32, took 10 girls hostage in an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five of them before killing himself.

Initiated Training

“Within the span of 16 minutes, the gunman killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. A savage act of domestic terrorism, their crime is the deadliest school shooting in the history of the United States”

Sheriff John P. Stone Jefferson Co. Colorado

Active Shooter Training

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Police: Alabama college shooting suspect killed her brother in 1986

Gunfire shattered an afternoon faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in

Huntsville…

Six dead in NIU shooting - A gunman who opened fire at a Northern Illinois University lecture hall Thursday afternoon -- killing five and injuring more than a dozen people…

Recent Headlines…

The Active Shooter Defined

An uncontained assailant whose controlling activity is immediately causing death and/or serious injury

Incidents of targeted violence at schools rarely were sudden, impulsive acts

Most Attackers had no history of prior violent or criminal behavior

Considered the greatest terrorist threat on campuses

Active Shooter

Officers don’t wait for SWAT 2-4 Officers immediately enter Goal is to immediately locate, contain, and

stop the shooter

Columbine Lessons Learned

Personal safety (Leader not Hero) Immediate and safe escape Secure in place - Lock and barricade doors - Close blinds - Turn off lights - Stay calm and quiet - Overpower??

*Remember mentality of shooter*

Your Role During a Shooting

Shots Fired video Departmental specific training All hazard planning Individual planning Scenario based training New staff/faculty employee training

How training has evolved

Student Behavior Unreasonableness Controlling Paranoid Victim mentality Quiet Unhealthy Weapons Enthusiast Vindictive Angry Violent

Recognizing Red Flags

Workplace Violence

Workplace Violence Warning Signs Handout

Recognizing Red Flags

The Student Behavioral Intervention Team iscomprised of a select group of universityadministrators charged with the responsibilityof identifying, investigating, assessing, andmonitoring high risk behaviors exhibited byUNCW students.

SBIT

A team of individuals assigned the task ofassessing the threat of workplace violence whenconcerns are reported. The Workplace ViolenceAssessment Team consists of representativesfrom: University Police Human Resources General Counsel Student Counseling Center CARE office (Collaboration for Assault Response and Education) Immediate supervisor.

Workplace Violence Assessment Team

Call or e-mail UNCW Police Call or e-mail Dean of Students Office Complete STAT referral form online Report the incident in person or by phone to

the Dean of Students Office or UNCW Police Department

Reporting Students to STAT

Contact UNCW Police for situations when imminent danger presents itself or at anytime during a situation

Where imminent danger is not an immediate concern, the appropriate supervisor or faculty member should be contacted

Reporting Workplace Violence

UNCW WORKPLACE VIOLENCE POLICY AND PROTOCOL 08.540

UNCW Division of Student Affairs -Student Behavioral Intervention Team (SBIT) Mission, Scope, Protocol, and Membership

References

911 Emergency 962-2222 Non-Emergency Anonymous e-mail Anonymous Tip Line 962-TIPS police@uncw.edu Nearest Call Box Text a Tip: text “Tip708”, your message and send to CRIMES

(274637) or online www.tips708.com. This service is available in cooperation with the Wilmington Police Department.

Police Department 5126 Lionfish Drive (Walton at Lionfish)

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