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Volume 54, Number 158 830-379-2234
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Limited seating still available for Civilian Response to Active Shooter Event seminar By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera (Seguin) -- The threat of active shooting events making headlines across the nation has continued to keep the Seguin Police Department proactive instead of reactive. The latest shooting events which targeted two communities, one at a Wal-Mart store in El Paso and the other at a bar in Dayton, Ohio have prompted Seguin PD officials to schedule even more free Civilian Response to Active Shooter Training Seminars. Several seminars have been hosted by the Seguin PD over the last couple of years. Limited seating still remains for a seminar scheduled for Friday, Aug. 30 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Seguin Public Library. Tanya Brown, public information officer for the Seguin PD, says law enforcement officers and agencies are frequently requested by schools, businesses, and community members for direction and presentations on what they should do if confronted with an active shooter event. She says the Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE) course, is designed to provide strategies, guidance, and a proven plan for surviving an active shooter event. Brown says since offering these trainings, the
seminars have proven beneficial to the average person looking to be vigilant in these current threats that have been reported in a variety of locations. Brown says it's the commitment of the police department to make people not only aware but increase their chance for survival. "We want people to be prepared. It's kind of like preparing for a hurricane, a tornado or fire drill.
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Those studies have shown that people are surviving incidents like that because they are actually planning or preparing. So, we have a plan. When you are in school, you guys are planning for fire drills. When the fire drill bell goes off, everybody knows what to do, right? This is kind of the same. We want people to say 'okay, when you are going in to a place to shop or eat, we want you to be aware of your surroundings," said Brown.
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Brown says the seminar is designed to include all the new tactics and ways of thinking should a person find themselves in a dangerous situation. "Also, when the FBI was doing these studies in the last 16 years, it was showing that people were trying to go out the same entry doors or exit doors that they were coming in to. So, if you entered Wal-Mart in the front of the store, typically people will go back to that same point of entry to exit and so in these attacks or situations like this, not always will those exits or entry doors be accessible. We have to make sure that people are aware of their surroundings so that they know another place to get out. I know back in the day, they were training that people could play dead and since then, that has changed. We don't want people to play dead. We want people to get out. Only denying access for the attacker into a room or office or building that you are in is the last choice but we want you to get out if you can," said Brown. Brown says folks who have sat in on previous seminars applaud the information that is provided. She says it's about being in control and being able to think when everything around them – in seconds -- becomes chaotic.
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