Orange Unified School District

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Crisis Disaster Preparedness
Art Romo Orange PD
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Topics for Today

• What type of police response to expect?
• Police tactical procedures
• What can the schools do to assist?
• Swat information

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General Guidelines

• These procedures tactics are general guidelines
• Difficult to predict when criminal acts are going
  to occur
• You should have a plan

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Purpose for a Plan ?

• Every school needs a written School Safety Plan
• Required by Calif. Administrative Code
• Staff should be prepared to handle crisis
• Know what to expect from your law enforcement
  agency

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Are You Prepared ?

• Pre-designated signal for alerting staff
• Pre-designate staff members to assist police
• Lockdown or evacuating procedures
• Plans for quickly accounting for students
• Central location for maps, blueprints, keys
  alarm codes

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Types of Scenarios

• Gang Fights
• Shootings
• Homicides
• Hostages
• Kidnappings
• Suicides

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Police Dispatchers

• Expect the dispatcher
• to keep the caller
• on the phone
• Dispatcher will, through the caller
• guide the officer into the scene
• provide update to officer

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When the Police Arrive

• What happened
• Location of suspect(s)
• Any weapons
• Cuffing of potential suspects
• Provide maps/layout school, info on students

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Responsibilities of Police First Responders

• Make the situation safe
• Locate contain the suspect
• Provide medical aid to victims
• Interview parties witnesses
• Expect crime scene containment-evidence
• Establish inner outer perimeters to
  contain/capture Suspect

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Immediate Intervention

• If on-going life threatening situations exist,
  provide swift immediate engagement
• Delayed action could otherwise result in death or
  great bodily injury to innocent persons
• Response should be a rapid deployment tempered
  with sound tactics
• We can no longer contain scene wait for
  backup/SWAT

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What to Expect in a Major Crisis

• Victims hiding, running, confused
  frightened
• Noise, confusion, screaming
• Fire smoke alarms
• Sprinklers
• Explosives
• Carnage

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Dynamic Intervention

• What type of action should occur?
• During a dynamic situation in a major crisis
  should expect two types of police intervention
• Contact team Rescue team

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Contact Team

• First officers on the scene
• Mission Stop gunman/attacker
• Moving expeditiously to sound of gunfire
• Bypass victims if suspect is actively shooting
• Note location of victim(s) notify rescue
  officers

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Rescue Team

• Secondary team of subsequent arriving officers
• Mission Locate, remove or escort victims away
  from danger
• Good communication with Contact team

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Remember

• When the incident originally occurs, the suspect
  has the advantage.
• As time goes on, that advantage shifts to the
  police.

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Additional Resources

• Fire
• Paramedics
• Detectives
• Traffic control
• Air support
• SWAT Crisis Negotiation Team

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Purpose of SWAT

• Provide a ready response to high risk situations
  beyond the capabilities of normally equipped and
  trained police officers

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SWAT Callout?

• When the situation goes beyond what the normally
  equipped trained officer can handle.
• Armed barricaded or hostage situation

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Criteria For Requesting SWAT

• 1. Hostage Incidents
• 2. Armed barricaded suspects
• 3. Sniper situations
• 4. High risk search arrest warrants
• 5. VIP protection
• 6. Unusual occurrence
• civil disorder

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Objectives of SWAT/CNT

• Contain - suspect from escaping
• Isolate - suspect from others
• Negotiate - a peaceful surrender
• Apprehend - arrest the suspect

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First SWAT Member?

• Sir Isaac Newton
• Nickname
• Shootin Newton
• First to develop theory that what is shot up into
  the air must later fall to the ground
• Hair often caught in the rifles ejection port

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First Female SWAT Sniper

• Annie Oakley
• Experimented with first documented pair of
  sunglasses
• Team numbers dwindled because she out-shot all
  the men

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Media Relations

• Establish Command Post near scene
• School Police coordinate release of info.
  through one individual
• Recognize medias needs deadlines
• Provide timely updates on incidents
• Work with them
• Establish a positive relation, they can be a
  useful tool

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Warning Signs

• Red flag behavior
• Establish Threat assessment
• Students Code of Silence
• Encourage students to report suspicious incidents
• Good liaison with your law enforcement

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General Guidelines

• These procedures tactics are general
  guidelines.
• Difficult to predict when criminal acts are going
  to occur.
• Have a plan.

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Summary

• Crisis-Disaster Preparedness is everyones
  responsibility
• Plan now - not when the incident occurs
• Will ensure greater degree of survival
• a successful conclusion

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Any Questions??

• Art Romo
• Orange PD
• [phone]