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How to Get a Rescue Task Force Off the Ground

There are two clocks running from the moment an active shooter begins; the shooter’s clock and the victim’s clock. One clock is concerned with living; one clock is concerned with dying. The shooter has to shoot as many people as possible before he’s stopped. The victim (casualty) has a period of time, depending on their trauma, where they can still be treated and live. The idea behind rescue task forces is to start working on the victim’s clock.

Spotlight on Safety: Vest Wear

“Spotlight on Safety” is a themed, multidimensional outreach plan designed to promote officer safety awareness and wellness as directly related to officer safety. Spotlight on Safety provides safety-related topics and offers resources associated with an identified theme. Each theme includes digital aids, potentially including downloadable and printable posters and links to related articles, publications, Webinars, podcasts, and online trainings.

Bringing Calm to Chaos: A Police Foundation Review of the San Bernardino Terrorist Attacks

"On all accounts, the public safety first response to the shooting was exemplary. First responders acted with courage and discipline – using their training and skills to act quickly and decisively in a horrifying situation. The challenges that they faced were immense.

This report is intended to inform other departments and cities as they train, prepare, and respond to critical events. Key ‘Lessons Learned’ are summarized in this E-Report and further detailed in the technical report."

Responding to Large Scale Events and Mass Demonstrations

The COPS Office works alongside law enforcement to support agencies experiencing extraordinary circumstances. Through many research efforts, COPS has invested countless resources to channel best and proven practices and distribute those throughout the field through publications. Many of these large-scale incidents are unique to the departments that experience them; however, the COPS Office continues to work with other agencies that have previously encountered similar circumstances to document best practices and lessons learned so that others can benefit.

How EMS and Fire Processes Must Change During Dynamic and Active Threat Situations

It's taken years to get crews into a standardized mindset to practice incident command (IC) and mass casualty incident (MCI) management in a non-chaotic and coordinated manner.

Progressive systems now routinely set up MCI operations at incidents that tax their available resources, request pre-arranged MCI waves/levels of units or task forces, and refrain from scooping up the first patients that come to them.

The New American Cop: Smarter, More Diverse, Better Equipped and Scared

On July 6, Nakia Jones, a police officer in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, was awakened by her teenage son bursting into her room, on the verge of tears. “Did you see the shooting?” he asked. The day before, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, someone had filmed two police officers tackling and then shooting to death a black man named Alton Sterling. The video showed in bloody detail how quickly an officer can take a life at point-blank range.

Integrating Software and Mobile Apps in Critical Incident Command

SWAT commanders, much like professional coaches, do the majority of their work off the field. Establishing expectations, developing strategies and improving both individual and team performance levels are all tasks done before game day (or in our case, a critical incident). When game day does come, the coach or SWAT commander’s role is to minimize risk, call the right plays and be prepared to adjust tactics as circumstances unfold.

How Terrorists Target and Attack Health Care Facilities and Personnel

The largest and second largest hostage-taking events in modern history did not take place at embassies, airports, government buildings or religious facilities; they both occurred inside public hospitals.

Launching "Operation Jihad" in 1995, 142 Chechen and Arab militants held 1,648 hostages — doctors, nurses, patients, visitors and security personnel — at a hospital in Budennovsk, Russia.

Armed Counter-Terrorism Officers Hit the Streets of London

Counter Terrorism Specialist Firearms Officers – dubbed C-men – can deploy by road, river or air in an emergency.

Why Solo-Officer Active Shooter Response Should be Trained

The events that took place at Columbine High School in Colorado on April 20, 1999 changed the way law enforcement trained and responded to active shooter incidents. The pictures and accounts from this act of cowardice produced tears and intense anger. Officers, trainers, supervisors, and command staff recognized the need for a different approach.

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