From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cincinnati Enquirer. Tristate police are practicing a radical approach to deal with school shootings -- immediately send in a team of officers whose only goal is to stop the gunfire. The new Quick Action Deployment (Quad) teams won't search the building or tend to victims. Instead, they're training to rush directly toward an ongoing shooting and end it. It's a new, more confrontational -- and dangerous -- concept for most officers, whose previous training would be to stay outside, contain the threat inside and call for a SWAT team. "Historically, we've been told, "Don't go rushing in and get yourself killed. Wait for SWAT," said Mike Ward, Chief of the Crescent Springs Police Department and head of the Northern Kentucky Emergency Response Unit. "But society's changed, and we have to change too." The Cincinnati Police Division just started training all its 1,000 officers to use the QUAD plan. The motto: Be FAST -- Focused, Aggressive and Stay Together. Because it takes time for the specially trained SWAT officers to mobilize, this plan trains any officer who could end up being among the first on a school-shooting scene. They're planning to use five officers instead of four. Led by the officer with the most tactical experience and training, the group would enter the school and disregard victims and other issues. The plan calls for the leader and rear officer to carry shotguns, while the left -- and right - side officers are armed with handguns. The fifth officers acts as a guide for the rear guard, who has to be able to walk backward and still keep his shotgun at the ready. -- So then they can get sued for not helping the victims while running towards the sound of a gunshot that was the sound of the shooter killing himself. There's no easy solution to this. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
