GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A quick response to a newly-introduced Green Bay Police Department offering.
At last word, 29 businesses had registered for the agency’s active shooter response training.
Lieutenant Jeff Engelbrecht explains what gets covered during each four-hour course.
“Statistics regarding active shooter trends in the United States. We look at and review active shooter incidents from across the country from over the years: what the response was, how things happened, and performance enhancement – as far as what we can do in the future to get better with that. We give people different options, based off of the information that they have at the time, to enhance their survivability and the survivability of the people who are entrusted to their care.”
Engelbrecht teaches the class, explaining how businesses can benefit from signing up.
“The consequences of these (active shooter incidents) dictate that we do train and be prepared for them. When people go through something like this, they begin to create the beginning of a mental blueprint.”
Captain Kevin Warych recently sat in on one of the classes, saying it covers many things that wouldn’t always come to mind.
“Does your door open inward or does your door open outward? How do you barricade an inward door versus an outward door.”
Any interested Green Bay business should contact police headquarters at 920-448-3200.
