Security Threats to People and Property
ACTIVE THREAT
Active Threat is defined as any incident that by its deliberate nature creates an immediate threat or presents an imminent danger to the campus community.
Types of active threats may include:
- Active Shooter,
- Hostage/barricaded subject,
- Suicide/homicide bomber,
- Vehicle ramming
- Known or suspected terrorist threat (inc. biological/chemical threat),
The guidelines below should be considered during these types of emergencies, but the specific situations may require deviation from these suggestions.
Run / Evacuate
Hide / Shelter
Fight / Survive
Do not wait to take action
Have an escape route and plan in mind.
Leave your belongings behind.
1. If running is not possible, hide.
2. Lock and barricade doors; shut off lights
3. Remain silent, yet vigilant avoid huddling together
1. Fighting is a last resort, use only when your life is in imminent danger.
2. Use improvised weapons, i.e. chair, fire
extinguisher.
3. Attempt to incapacitate the active threat.
4. There is strength in numbers; work together
against the active threat.
Supplemental Active Threat Instruction
Additional After Action Steps
Follow Actions to Take After an Emergency AND,
After an Active Threat Event be prepared to provide medical aid to injured employees
After an Active Threat Event be prepared for overhead announcements and Law Enforcement instruction for safe “Evacuation Order”