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Responding to Active Killer Situations                      

Operator & Instructor Certification Programs

The Responding to Active Killer Situations Programs address the realities of facing subjects determined—for whatever reasons—on injuring or killing innocent victims during sustained, concentrated violent attacks. Facing the juvenile, adult, and terrorist killer are all dealt with in the programs.

Our Responding to Active Killer Situations operator and instructor certification programs have been developed specifically to accomplish the following objectives:

• to examine the realities that may be faced by the law enforcement officer responding to an active killer situation

• to assist officers to prepare to deal with these realities to the best of their individual abilities

To accomplish these objectives, the course provides an in-depth classroom segment utilizing a PowerPoint® presentation, lesson plans, and a hands-on introduction to basic tactics that will first be practiced and then employed during scripted, dynamic training exercises relating to the following mission-specific activities:
    1. Containment
    2. Tactical Entry
    3. Suspect Control

Both the operator and instructor training program have been designed to be delivered to an appropriate location of the client’s choice. The three-day instructor training program includes a copy of the operator course PowerPoint® presentation on CD-ROM.

Why “active killer” instead of “active shooter”?

In 2001 Mike Conti started using the term "active killer" for this serious program because he felt “shooter” limits the scope of the threat. Since offenders can employ a variety of weapons while carrying out their crimes, responders must be mentally prepared for any reality. This term has since been adopted by other trainers in the industry, validating his rationale.

Worst US Active Killer School Attack

While we tend to think of the more recent events such as the April 1999 Columbine High School incident, (right) and the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre perpetrated by Seung-Hui Cho (below left) in regard to active killer situations in schools, history would indicate that attacking the most vulnerable members of our society in a place that has traditionally been considered safe is not a new phenomenon.

What is relatively new is the spate of attacks on school children by their classmates that have taken place over the past few decades. This fact-pattern has been explored by many professionals in the law enforcement and educational communities, and many theories have been brought forward. The more viable theories are explored in these two courses.

As indicated above, in the past, adults were usually the offenders when deadly attacks were unleashed on schoolchildren. Charles Whitman (shown at left) was one of the most well-known offenders in this category. On August 1, 1966, Whitman killed 14 people and wounded an additional 30. Many were shot as Whitman fired a deadly barrage of accurate rifle fire from the University of Texas tower in Austin.

Whitman was killed by 2 police officers after a rampage lasting more than an hour.

Of all the attacks on US schools to date, however, the worst was recorded in 1927 in Bath, Michigan.

On the morning of May 18, 1927, a farmer and treasurer of the Bath school board named Andrew Kehoe carried out a murderous plan he had apparently spent months preparing for. After killing all the fruit trees on his farm he murdered his wife and tied her to a cart. After setting off dynamite charges he had placed around his farm buildings, he then drove into town and cut the wires to the central telephone office. Kehoe then drove to the Bath School and watched from his car as he triggered dynamite charges he had previously placed in the school. The devastating blast caused extensive damage to the school, literally blowing out walls, collapsing floors, and lifting off the roof of the north wing. Bodies of some of the victims were found in the schoolyard. Many more children and teachers were buried inside the collapsed structure. The school superintendent, Emery Huyck, spotted Kehoe in his car and ran toward him. As he did, Kehoe detonated another charge in the vehicle killing himself and Superintendant Huyck. All told, 37 children and 7 adults were killed, more than 50 others injured, making this the worst US school attack to date.

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