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The following guidelines are intended to reduce your personal risk in the unlikely event that an Active Shooter Incident should
occur on campus.
If you are outside a building when an event
occurs, you should take immediate cover,
preferably inside a building, circumstances
permitting.
If you are in a building when an event
occurs, you should
secure immediate area:
•Lock and barricade doors
•Do not stand by doors or windows
•Turn off lights
•Close blinds
•Block windows
•Turn off radios and computer monitors
•Keep yourself out of sight and take
adequate cover/protection (i.e. concrete walls, filing cabinets
- cover may protect you
from bullets)
•Silence cell phones
Un-Securing an area:
•Consider risks before un-securing rooms
•Remember, the shooter will not stop until
they are engaged by an outside force
•Attempts to rescue people should only be
attempted if it can be accomplished without further endangering the persons
inside a secured area.
•Consider the safety of masses-vs-the
safety of a few.
•If doubt exists for the safety of the
individuals inside the room, the area should remain secured.
•Know all alternate exits in your building.
Contacting Authorities:
•Dial 911 from any University phone
•Dial 8 or 6111 from any university phone
•Dial (856)225-6111 from any cell phone
What to Report:
•Your specific location-building name and office/room number
•Number of people at your specific location
•Injuries-number injured, types of injuries
•Assailant(s)-location, number of suspects, race/gender, clothing description, physical features, type of weapons (long gun or hand gun), backpack, shooters identity if known, separate explosions from gunfire, etc
Police Response:
•Objective is to engage assailant(s) immediately
•Evacuate victims
•Facilitate follow up
•medical care
•interviews
•counseling
•Investigation
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