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Identifier	Thesis 2120
Author	Spyros, Edward J., 1957-
Title	Training police officers: responding effectively to the active school shooter
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2010
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	School shootings are not a new phenomenon in the United States. Since the first school shooting in 1966 at the University of Texas, close to 50 school shootings have occurred with over 175 deaths reported. Police have traditionally responded to these incidents by securing the school’s perimeter and waiting for the arrival of specialized units to take control of the incident and resolve it. Since the attack at Columbine High School in 1999, some police departments have changed their response plans. The terms Active Shooter and Immediate Action Rapid Deployment (IARD) are new language for law enforcement. During an active school shooting, some police agencies now train their officers to make an immediate entry into the school and neutralize the perpetrator. While school shootings are one of the top social concerns facing society today, not all law enforcement agencies train their officers in IARD. As no community is exempt from a school shooting, all law enforcement officers should receive the specialized training to appropriately handle and resolve these critical incidents. Police officers from Connecticut and Massachusetts (n=275) were surveyed about their training, their probable actions responding to a mock active shooter in a school, and their perceptions regarding various methods of instruction. The officers viewed police training as vital and highly desired, and rated role play/scenario based training as the most preferred and effective instructional method for training police officers. More importantly, the research showed that officers trained in IARD were significantly more confident and more likely to provide appropriate responses to the mock shooting scenario.
Subject	Police training School shootings
Department	Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Advisor	Hedlund, Jennifer
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	703431479
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