Training Materials Say First Officers on Scene should ‘Confront the Shooter’

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

‘Remember, every time you hear a gunshot in an active shooter incident; you have to believe that is another victim being killed.’; Four Officers on Scene at February 14 Parkland Shooting Did Not Enter School Building

Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- Judicial Watch today released Broward County Sheriff’s Office training and operation materials that specifically dictate that the first one or two officers on the scene of an active shooter incident “will immediately go to confront the shooter.”

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office’s Standard Operating Procedure and lesson plans for an active shooter incident were obtained by Judicial Watch via a Florida Sunshine Act records request.

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that armed school resource officer Deputy Scot Peterson was first on the scene of the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, but he did not enter the school to confront shooter Nikolas Cruz.

Three other deputies also arrived on the scene but did not enter, the sheriff’s office said. The Broward County materials direct that if four officers are on the scene of an active shooter incident they …Read the Rest

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