To date, more than 64,000 police chiefs, sheriffs, and law enforcement executives from state, local, tribal, and campus law enforcement have participated in these conferences, which will be held on an ongoing basis to ensure that the law enforcement community is prepared for future threats.įBI field offices also host tabletop exercises-focusing on how to respond and recover from an active shooter incident. These two-day conferences include discussions and instructions related to specific aspects of active shooter incidents, including pre-event indicators (i.e., behavioral analysis), complex crime scene management and evidence collection, crisis management, victim assistance, media matters, and improvised explosive devices. In addition to offering ALERRT to first responders, FBI field offices are bringing law enforcement command staff together to discuss best practices and lessons learned from prior mass shooting incidents. Many state and local police departments have also adopted it as a standard for active shooter response, ensuring law enforcement officers arriving on the scene understand how others are trained to respond.Īpproximately 225 FBI tactical instructors from around the country were trained in the ALERRT protocols after attending its 40-hour train-the-trainer course and are using what they learned to assist with the increased demand for the training by state, local, tribal, and campus law enforcement agencies. ALERRT has trained more than 114,000 law enforcement first responders in a response protocol adopted by the FBI as the national standard for special agent tactical instructors. In response to the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings, the FBI-with the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance-teamed up with the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) program, which was developed in Texas, supported by the state of Texas, and housed at Texas State University. DOJ, led by the FBI, was specifically tasked with training law enforcement and other first responders to ensure that protocols for responding to active shooter situations are consistent across the country. A White House working group-consisting of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Homeland Security, Department of Education, and Department of Health and Human Services-is part of a broader initiative, Now is the Time, undertaken after the Sandy Hook shootings. Second, working with other cabinet agencies, the FBI is finding ways to help prevent and respond to active shooters. The attorney general delegated this responsibility to the FBI. attorney general-at the request of appropriate state or local law enforcement personnel-to provide federal assistance during active shooter incidents and mass killings (defined by the law as three or more people) in public places. Two actions enhanced these efforts.įirst, the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012, signed into law by the president in January 2013, permits the U.S.
Shortly after the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012, the FBI sought ways its personnel could better assist its law enforcement partners. To that end, the FBI provides operational, behaviorally-based threat assessment and threat management services to help detect and prevent acts of targeted violence, helping academic, mental health, business, community, law enforcement, and government entities recognize and disrupt potential active shooters who may be on a trajectory toward violence. The Bureau also continues its research to identify indicators that could signal potential violent intent.įBI Jurisdiction in Active Shooter Incidents
The successful prevention of these active shooter incidents lies with a wide range of public and private entities all working together. An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area, and recent active shooter incidents have underscored the need for a coordinated response by law enforcement and others to save lives. The FBI is committed to working with its partners to protect schools, workplaces, houses of worship, transportation centers, other public gathering sites, and communities.Īlthough local and state law enforcement agencies are virtually always the first ones on the scene, the FBI has played a large role in supporting the response to every major incident in recent years and has much to offer in terms of capacity, expertise, specialized capabilities, training, and resources before and after an incident occurs.
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