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TERRACE - Terrace RCMP called a special police unit to assess the risk after Northwest Community College (NWCC) received two more threats after a bomb threat in October. The E Division Behavioural Analysis Unit out of Surrey was contacted to assist the Terrace General Investigation Unit. The behavioural unit is made up of specially trained experts, who evaluate behaviour similar to a profiler, who give an opinion on whether one or more people are making threats, their next move, and the level of risk of the threat, said Cpl. Mike Dame, officer in charge of the Crime Re-
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able with our assessment of that risk.” The college has, however, posted warning notices throughout its Terrace campus. Terrace RCMP media relations and community policing officer Const. Angela Rabut said the safety risk was less than the bomb threat. “The Behavioral Analysis Unit and the Terrace GIS Unit analyzed the threats and determined the risk to be low at this time,” she said. “The most effective security is the entire college students and faculty being vigilant and keeping an eye out for anything suspicious. “We are working with the college to keep everyone informed as to what is going on and to report anything suspicious.”
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duction Unit and General Investigation Section of Terrace RCMP. “What they do is give an assessment, an opinion...a very educated opinion,” said Dame. Police will then use that to determine whether, for example, the college should be evacuated, he said. The second and third threats received Nov. 22 and 26 were not as severe, so the college wasn’t evacuated like it was after a bomb threat Oct. 2, says Phil Saunders, director communications and PR at NWCC. “We have an extra security guard that’s going to be working in the evening,” said Saunders of the extra security measures the college took. “We are comfortable and the RCMP are comfort-
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An emergency protocol was in the process of being set up at the college and after the bomb threat Oct. 2, the process was put in place, said Saunders. The subsequent threats have been different kinds of threats but Saunders couldn’t give many details. Whoever made the bomb threat hasn’t been caught and there is nothing to show that the person is familiar with the college, he said. On Oct. 2, someone emailed a bomb threat to Northwest Community College, which led to the college being evacuated for the day. A bomb sniffing dog was called in and searched the buildings and residences but didn’t find anything.
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