Call 9-1-1 if You Can; Text If You Can’t
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Run
- Have an escape route and plan in mind
- Leave your belongings behind
- Keep your hands visible
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Hide
- Hide in an area out of the active shooter’s view
- Block entry to your hiding place and lock the doors.
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Fight (Defend)
- As a last resort and only when your life is in imminent danger
- Attempt to incapacitate the active shooter
- Act with physical aggression and throw items at the active shooter
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How to Respond When Law Enforcement Arrives on the Scene
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- Remain calm and follow the officer’s instructions
- Immediately raise your hands and spread your fingers
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- Keep hands visible at all times
- Avoid pointing, screaming, and/or yelling
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- Avoid making quick movements toward officers, such as attempting to hold onto them for safety
- Do not stop to ask officers for help or direction when evacuating just proceed in the direction from which officers are entering the premises
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Information to Provide Law Enforcement or 9-1-1
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- Location of the victim(s) and the active shooter(s)
- Number of shooters, if more than one
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- Physical descriptions of the shooter(s)
- Number and type of weapons held by the shooter(s
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- Number of potential victims at the location
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Recognizing Signs of Potential Workplace Violence
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An active shooter may be a current or former employee. Alert security department if you believe an employee exhibits potentially-violent behavior. Indicators of potentially-violent behavior may include one or more of the following:
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- Increased use of alcohol and/or illegal drugs
- Unexplained increase in absenteeism and/or vague physical complaints
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- Depression/ Withdrawal
- Increased severe mood swings and noticeably unstable or emotional responses
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- Increasing talks of problems at home
- Increase in unsolicited comments about violence, firearms, and other dangerous weapons and violent crimes
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Campus Security Main
(956) 295 – 3700
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ITECC
(956) 295 – 3755
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[email protected]
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