(From the Newton County Sheriff's Office)Over the last two months, the Newton County Sheriff’s Office has been training all deputies and detectives in responding to active shooter situations.
During these trainings, students are taught the tactics and lessons learned from prior active shooter events from around the country.
We are pleased to say that our deputies are prepared for such a situation. We are very fortunate to be able to hold this training due to the investment in public safety made by the Citizens of Newton County in June of 2020.
Due to the 911/Public Safety Sales Tax, we have been able to purchase equipment and safety gear to enhance this training and make it more realistic. We wish to continue this training and offer it to police agencies within Newton County to increase preparedness in the event of an active shooter in their jurisdictions.
We will be reaching out to those agencies to attend a class to be announced in September.
We would like to thank Granby Elementary School and Crowder College for allowing us to use their buildings to train in, as well as recognize the hard work of our instructors for working through the extreme hot summer weather to obtain the goal of having fully trained our deputies before the start of the school year. Thank you again to the Citizens of Newton County for giving us the tools to be prepared for the possibility of an active shooter incident. We will fight and we will win!
2 comments:
Well, let's just hope Newton County's men and women in blue do a better job of responding to the situation than the cops in Uvalde, Texas did.
As long as the end goal is to kill the intruders, I’d say shoot ‘em up NCSD, SWMO will stand behind you. Thank you Leo’s
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