<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1654545872381,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-fe9d-da96-ad7d-ffbf8a5c0000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1654545872381,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-fe9d-da96-ad7d-ffbf8a5c0000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_54534247", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1026914"} }); ","_id":"00000181-3a9e-dedf-ad93-bfff59eb0000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedGov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is pushing for all school districts in Texas to receive active shooter training before the next school year begins.
The Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training at Texas State University has been tasked with providing the training to school districts, in particular school-based law enforcement, following a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde earlier this month in which 19 children and two teachers were killed and the delayed response by law enforcement was heavily scrutinized.
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“All Texans join with the families and community of Uvalde in mourning their loss. We sadly recognize we cannot do anything to bring back the precious lives that were taken; however, we must do everything in our power to prevent the same tragic ending from happening again,” Abbott wrote in a letter Monday. “An important part of these prevention efforts must focus on the proper training of law enforcement and school administrators on how to respond when they face the threat of an active shooter on their campus.”
In addition to training, ALERRT has been directed to provide school administrators, law enforcement, and other school safety leaders with a debrief of the Uvalde shooting and other similar incidents.
The program will include 16 hours of training in “team movement, room entry techniques, approach and breaching the crisis, shooting and moving, as well as post engagement priorities of work,” according to a press release by the governor’s office.
ALERRT has been recognized as setting the national standard for active shooter response training by the FBI since 2013.
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Since 2018, the Texas Administrative Code has required school district peace officers and resource officers to complete an active shooter response training approved by the state law enforcement commission, as reported by CBS News.
