DENVER - With each new shooting, such as the ones in Orlando, Florida and Fort Hood, Texas, police say they are developing new techniques that are saving lives.
"We have learned a lot in the decade since that deadly attack at Columbine High School," said Detective Jim Shires of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. "In the past we would respond, surround, and control the scene, but now we have put into play the Active Shooter Protocol, which says we let the first four officers on scene form a diamond wedge and they move toward the sound of gunfire to take down the suspect."
That means the main goal of those first arriving officers is go get the shooter, even if it means walking by those who may be dead or wounded.
"Our first priority is to get the attacker and limit the loss of life," said Shires.
The tactics have been successful in reducing the number killed both at the Virginia Tech and New Life Church shootings over the past few years. And now we can sadly add to those incidents those in Texas and Florida.
The ASP is being credited with helping save lives and as new shootings happen, law enforcement is adapting other new techniques to keep citizens safe.
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"We have learned a lot in the decade since that deadly attack at Columbine High School," said Detective Jim Shires of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. "In the past we would respond, surround, and control the scene, but now we have put into play the Active Shooter Protocol, which says we let the first four officers on scene form a diamond wedge and they move toward the sound of gunfire to take down the suspect."
That means the main goal of those first arriving officers is go get the shooter, even if it means walking by those who may be dead or wounded.
"Our first priority is to get the attacker and limit the loss of life," said Shires.
The tactics have been successful in reducing the number killed both at the Virginia Tech and New Life Church shootings over the past few years. And now we can sadly add to those incidents those in Texas and Florida.
The ASP is being credited with helping save lives and as new shootings happen, law enforcement is adapting other new techniques to keep citizens safe.
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