{"id":127167,"date":"2022-07-19T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=127167"},"modified":"2022-07-19T09:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:12:59","slug":"respond-and-protect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/07\/19\/respond-and-protect\/","title":{"rendered":"Respond and protect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wright State University Police Department joined dozens of officers from Greene and Montgomery counties in an active threat training exercise hosted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/calamityville\">Wright State\u2019s Calamityville<\/a> on July 13.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over 40 officers participated, including every Wright State police responder and representatives from Fairborn, Yellow Springs, the University of Dayton and Wilberforce. They received instruction from the Ohio State Highway Patrol\u2019s Special Response Team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participants received solo and team response training during an active shooter threat. Using simulated weapons, officers responded to several active shooter locations and a hostage scenario.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are putting them through actual simulated scenarios that would try to make it as real-life as possible,\u201d said Sgt. John Beeler, an instructor with the State Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Officers also received emergency medical response training that could be used during an active threat situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI learned a lot from going through the drills,\u201d said Wright State police officer Vernon Jeffers. \u201cThe more we actually practice these real-life situations, the better we\u2019ll be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kurt Holden, the director of public safety at Wright State, said university police officers participate in active shooter training several times a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf something were to happen, we want to make sure our officers are highly experienced and highly trained to provide a safe environment,\u201d said Holden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wright State Police Department offers free in-person and virtual active shooter training for students, faculty and staff. The Run, Hide, Fight course helps prepare participants to proactively handle an active shooter event or an aggressive individual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">More information about free community policing programming at Wright State is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/public-safety\/police\/community-policing-programming\">Department of Public Safety website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State Police Department joined dozens of officers from Greene and Montgomery counties in an active threat training exercise at Wright State\u2019s Calamityville. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/07\/19\/respond-and-protect\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":127171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2144,725,727,715,4847,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-center-for-medical-readiness","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-public-safety","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127223,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127167\/revisions\/127223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}