Corrections Officer is Shot inside Jail
/Ok, so, EVERY time we schedule a course for “Active Shooter/Threat in a correctional setting, we always get asked this…”has this ever happened in corrections” or “this would NEVER happen in the jail, is it would, the street deputies would handle it”! WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!! In Spanish in case English is not sufficient….”EQUIVOCADOS!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, now that I got that out of the way. Our condolences go out to the Perry County Jail in AR, their staff and to the family of the mirdered corrections deputy. In a school setting it takes the responding officer between 3 to 5 min to respond, these are FBI statistics. What do you think it would be to the inside of a correctional institution?!!! There are ways to train an tackle this issue. We have been teaching it since 2010, but we always get this from administrators “this would never happen here”, or “SWAT would take care of it”. Well, I say this, “thick, tock, tick,tock” when someone is inside the institution shooting with a gun, officers, staff and inmates are the responsibility of the leadership….is your staff trained?!!
Be safe, train hard, train for what it could happen because one day it will!
Chief Lopez
https://policetribune.com/arkansas-correctional-officer-murdered-by-gunman-inside-jail-facility/