500 personnel participate in 8 days of active shooter training in Scotts Valley

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In Scotts Valley, personnel from 40 law enforcement and fire agencies from across the state and the Central Coast participated in active shooter training. The training prepared them to respond to shootings on a school campus, at a community event or in the workplace.For the last eight days they came together to train for situations that everyone hopes will never happen but they have to prepare, in case it doesSome of these first responder exercises are taken from events that have played out in actual active shooting cases around the country."And sometimes have multiple real some of the scenarios have multiple real-life events that have been combined together so we can meet those training objectives," said Nader Oweis, Sonoma State Police Chief.Those training objectives are to ensure teams of law enforcement, paramedics and firefighters can coordinate and communicate as they enter into an active shooter situation."It's incredibly essential. We take for granted just our common terminology that we use on the fireside isn't always understandable on the law enforcement side and vice versa," said Chad Akin, Central Fire Battalion Chief.And it won't be long before a new in-person school year begins with students back in class. They too will undergo some type of training although it won't be as detailed as this."We do have a number of intruder drills every year, multiple times a year where we have kids barricade inside the classroom and have officers check doors to kind of simulate what would happen in a real event," said Scotts Valley Police Chief Steve Walpole.The Scotts Valley High school campus provides ideal training conditions for these exercises."All of the skills the officers are learning are transferable for any environment, but we wanted to bring some realism being at a high school to kind of high home with our offices and firefighters to make sure they trained with a purpose," Oweis said.After each session teams go over what went right and what needs work.

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For the last eight days they came together to train for situations that everyone hopes will never happen but they have to prepare, in case it does

Some of these first responder exercises are taken from events that have played out in actual active shooting cases around the country.

"And sometimes have multiple real some of the scenarios have multiple real-life events that have been combined together so we can meet those training objectives," said Nader Oweis, Sonoma State Police Chief.

Those training objectives are to ensure teams of law enforcement, paramedics and firefighters can coordinate and communicate as they enter into an active shooter situation.

"It's incredibly essential. We take for granted just our common terminology that we use on the fireside isn't always understandable on the law enforcement side and vice versa," said Chad Akin, Central Fire Battalion Chief.

And it won't be long before a new in-person school year begins with students back in class. They too will undergo some type of training although it won't be as detailed as this.

"We do have a number of intruder drills every year, multiple times a year where we have kids barricade inside the classroom and have officers check doors to kind of simulate what would happen in a real event," said Scotts Valley Police Chief Steve Walpole.

The Scotts Valley High school campus provides ideal training conditions for these exercises.

"All of the skills the officers are learning are transferable for any environment, but we wanted to bring some realism being at a high school to kind of high home with our offices and firefighters to make sure they trained with a purpose," Oweis said.

After each session teams go over what went right and what needs work.

500 personnel participate in 8 days of active shooter training in Scotts Valley

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