stunned the entire country and prompted lawmakers to address gaps in police training and response to school shootings. Lawmakers recently passed several laws that add training requirements for officers and call for better coordination in rural counties.
Senate Bill 1852 adds also 16 hours of active shooter training to the basic peace officer training course and requires all officers in Texas to get this training once every two years as part of their continuing education requirement. “We need to identify who’s coming, what their capabilities are, what their response time is,” said Mike Matranga, CEO of M6 Global Defense. “Then we need to set aside our egos and our personalities and understand that, listen, if you can’t get to an active shooting event within a five-minute time period, then you become a secondary responder.”
Harris County Sheriff’s Office Senior Deputy Chris Wells said his position was created after Uvalde. Wells, who is HCSO’s active attack coordinator, agrees setting up incident command quickly is crucial to managing the varied resources responding to an active shooter. “Our scenarios are not us at the sheriff’s office, we know we can’t fix the problem by ourselves,” said Wells.
Houston police said this type of incident management training is also now going down to the sergeant level. HPD Asst. Chief Thomas Hardin is over HPD’s Homeland Security Command and said a new level of training has also been added-- training that involves what happens after a shooter is stopped.
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