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Schoool Violence: Critical Incident Planning & Response
Length of Seminar: 2
Days
Instructor: Paul
Mendofik
Course Overview:
To help your agency prepare for the unexpected emergencies
associated with school violence. Introduce what is needed for proper
planning, procedure and policy decisions. Demonstrate how your agency
should interact during a multi-agency response situation and how to
protect your agency against liability incidents.
Introduction to Critical Incident
Operation Planning: This session will familiarize the student
with the different planning techniques associated with a single or
multi-agency response to a critical incident. They will learn how
to manage the incident as well as day to day operations. It will
show methods on how to recover and return your agency to normal operations.
Incident Management System: The
student will learn the principles behind the Incident Command System
and how to implement them. They will also learn why the system fits
any emergency encountered.
Past Incidents: Tragedies
such as Pearl Mississippi, West Paducah, Kentucky, Jonesboro, Arkansas,
Springfield, Oregon, and Littleton, Colorado, Columbine, and Virginia
Tech, will be discussed to gain insight into the problems that were
encountered by the responding agencies.
Identifying Character Traits
and Motives: Assessing the risk for aggression and violence
in schools.
Post Incident Stress: This
session deals with how to identify the post traumatic stress and have
available the resources to confront this critical issue.
Liability Issues – Policy & Procedures: The
student will learn what documentation is needed to protect their agencies
from unwarranted civil action and United States Supreme Court decisions
regarding agencies actions.
Managing School Emergencies
Introduction to Explosives and
Their Hazards: This session will identify the difference between
high explosives and low explosives and their chemical components.
The students will learn the existing hazards associated with explosives
and the dangers to first responding personnel.
Bomb Threats and Bomb Search
Techniques: The students will learn how to evaluate a threat,
and properly manage a bomb threat incident. Room search techniques,
how to properly search a facility utilizing proper personnel. How
to properly handle the situation once a suspicious object is located.
How to properly evacuate once an object is located.
Rapid Deployment During Critical
Incidents: Techniques will be discussed on how to rapidly
deploy personnel safely, to mitigate and secure potential violent
offenders.
Explosive Weapons: Improvised
Explosive Devices. This session will introduce the students to various
forms of explosive weapons and how easily they are constructed.
Crime Scene Management: The
student will learn the proper techniques for processing a crime scene
where explosive material was used. Procedures for proper evidence recovery. |
