Active shooter training exercise held in Montgomery County
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and CrimeStoppers have held their active shooter training exercise in Ramer.
Today’s exercise was part of a three-day critical incident response training session for Montgomery Public Schools and other regional partners.
This initiative is a collaboration between ASU’s Preventing School Violence program, the ASU Office of Public Safety and CrimeStoppers, which aims to improve school safety and crisis preparedness.
The programs are designed to equip law enforcement officers, school security personnel and administrative staff with advanced strategies for managing crises, active shooter situations, threat assessments and school-based policing.
“This is an annual training that we do every year,” Jerome Jones of CrimeStoppers told Action 8 News. “It’s just a brush-up for our school resource officers on anything from medical treatment in the case of an emergency and active shooter training. What you’re seeing here at the Dunbar Ramer School which now is a training facility for the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.”
“Know that MPS is very serious about safety,” Sgt. Johnny Cotton, a school resource officer for Montgomery Public Schools, said. “Once these students come on our campus, they become our responsibility. So just like I would do for my own kids, I am in the business of protecting your child and ensuring that if something does occur that we’re going to handle it to the best of our ability.”
Key focus areas included identifying school threats, enhancing emergency operations planning and clarifying law enforcement roles during critical incidents.
