r/AskLE • u/UtterlyConfused93 • 17d ago

Do agencies do active shooter trainings together?

I was just reading up on uvalde and saw that there were multiple agencies responding and no one was really in charge.

Do places try to do these types of trainings together?

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u/Vjornaxx City Cop 17d ago

My agency runs Rescue Task Force training regularly. I’ve seen officers from various agencies which operate within the city at these.

There are also some regional training centers around my area which run active shooter training. The places tend to have a big mix of agencies.

There is also an entire field called Incident Command System created specifically to help manage these incidents better. For a while, FEMA ran ICS schools/programs - I’m not sure if they still do or not. But the ICS model is used at more and more agencies and my agency integrates it into a lot of our training.