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Active Shooter & Multi-HazardCrisis Safety Consulting

Response to Business, School, Commercial Retail, Houses of Worship and Workplace Violence

&Improvised Explosive Devices.

John Sakoian, PresidentCommand Excellence™

ACTION™ TrainingCommandExcellence.com

John Sakoian is the President of Command Excellence™ LLC and ACTION™ Training. He is a Directorfor the international company First Tactical. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and currentlyserving on the Executive Board of the FBI National Academy Associates Western Pennsylvania Chapter.John formulated & instructed the Crisis Incident Command/Management and Active Shooter Trainingprograms for more than 1,200 police officers, over 2,500 educators in K-12 schools & Universities, and over200 commercial/workplace settings. John produced his Active Shooter programs into online educationmodules for workplace convenience and will soon partner with Send Word Now an internal emergencycommunications system who has operational systems in 70 of the top fortune 100 companies in the world.

John’s training programs have been approved by Pennsylvania’s Municipal Police Officers Education &Training Commission (MPOETC), obtaining twenty-four Pennsylvania grants and three Homeland SecurityPEMA grants approved by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE).

John’s accomplishments also include the prior training of police officers who responded to the LA Fitnessshooting and the Franklin Regional High School stabbing incidents. John has been a Police Officer for over40 years, with 25 years of tactical command level experience.

Biography

Agencies Trained & Endorsements• Over 1,200 Law Enforcement & Public Safety

officials• PA Municipal Police Officers Training & Ed Commission (MPOETC)

• 24 PA State Grants• 3 Homeland Security Grants

• Over 2,500 Educators • School Districts & Resource Officers• PASSHE (14 PA State Universities) • Private Colleges• Community Colleges

• Over 200 Corporations, shops, malls, manufacturing factories, churches, health care, assisted living facilities & other private businesses

Introduction:There is no time when people are more severely tested or when their actions come under closer scrutiny than immediately after they have experienced a major incident.

Do you have a plan & train for multi-hazards?•Natural Disasters• Criminal Activity (Active Shooter & Improvised Explosive Devices; IED’S)

• Fire & Hazardous Material Incidents• Terrorist Actions & weapons of mass destruction• Travel• Self-destruction

ACTION™ Planning & Training Benefits

Createsasaferworkenvironment

Establishesclearleadership

Clarifiescommunicationsystems

PromotescoordinationwithPublicSafety

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PreparationHow vulnerable of a target is your business, church or school? Are you prepared?

“Preparation & training makes your own luck”

Chuck Noll4 Steeler Super Bowls

“To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence”

Sun TzuArt of War

Steps:• Identifythethreat• Assessthethreat• Managethethreat

FBI & NYPD Study Statistics• US Active Shooter incidents have tripled in the last 14 years

• 29% occur in Schools, 49% occur in a Commercial Workplace

• 60% of incidents are over before police arrive, lasting @ 6 minutes

• 86% end violently; 40% commit suicide & 46% must be forcefully stopped

• 98% perpetrated by a ”Lone Wolf,” brittle people with deep personal, political or religious grievances, leading to acts of catastrophic violence or seeking notoriety

• 96% are perpetrated by males

• Only 1% flee and 13% Surrender

• 32,000 terrorism deaths in 2014, an 80% increase from 2013

LasVegas,Oct1,201758killedover500injured

NewYorkCityPark,Oct.31,2017HomeDepottruckattack,8killed,11injured

SutherlandSpringsTX,BaptistChurch,Nov.5,201726killed,27injured FBI & NYPD Study Statistics

• Auorora CO Theater; 70 people shot (12 killed) in 2012

• Virginia Tech VA; 49 people shot (39 killed) in 2007

• Fort Hood TX; 45 people shot in 2009

• Sandy Hook Elementary CT; 29 people shot (26 killed) in 2012

• Great need to identify these people during the planning stages

• 98% Lone Wolf, 96% male offenders, 26% kill or assault a family first

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Do we know what we are doing?

50% of all attackers plan the event for about 2 weeks Strategic & Operational Planning

Strategic

Operational

Preparedness: A Continuous Process

Mental Mapping by Hearing, Seeing & Doing in TrainingC

Active or Static Barricade Options3.Negotiation2.Sniper1.Physicalassaulttoneutralizethethreat

Active Shooter & Multi-Hazard Safety Plan

• Threatvulnerability&riskassessment• Creatinganemergencyactionpre-planwithowner(s)&administration• Tabletopexercises• EmployeeACTION™training• Parent/familytraining• Studenttrainingifapplicable• LiveDrillsonsitewithlocalpublicsafety

• Leadership• Communicationsystems• Publicsafetynetworking• Behaviorcharacteristics• Violenceriskfactors• TriggerEvents• De-escalators• ImprovisedExplosiveDevices• Lockouts,lockdowns,controlledevacuations,shelterinplace,resistanceactions

Prevention, Preparation, Response & Recovery

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ITResponsibilities• InternetTechnologyinternalsecuritylayers&maintenance• Firewalls,malware,passwords,updates,newhires,terminations,etc.

• InternalEmergencyCommunicationsSystem(testedregularly)• Text,voice,email,PA,web-based,geo-fenced&conferencecalling• Abilitytorespondforaccountability&reunification

• ElectronicVisitorSign-in,IdentificationSystem&RecordChecks• Surveillance/SecurityCameraswithsmartphoneremoteaccess• Computerizedlocks,logs&cardaccessandITinspections

consistentwiththefacilitysecurityoperationsandrequirements• Assistfirstresponderswithaccesscontrols&ITinformation

• Liaisonwithpublic&privateITpersonnel(FBIInfragard Program)

A C T I O N™Assess: Situational Awareness; what is going on? “OODA Loop” Observe, Orient, Decide & Act

Cover & Call 911: Tactical Movement to safety, cover stops bullets (explosives); Calling 911, be clear & articulate, identifying yourself & type of threat(s)

Time: Lockdown or Evacuate to create time & distance from the threat? (incidents are over in 3-10 minutes)

Inform: Law Enforcement and your people with updates (video surveillance, PA, phone, text, internet, etc.)

Offensive: Fight, resist distract as a last resort if confronted

Never Give Up!: to Fear, Helplessness & Horror (PTSD)Develop the Skill and the Will to survive!

8 Critical ACTION™ Tasks

PublicSafetyGoal is to preserve Life, Isolate, Contain, Solve

What to do in the first seconds that saves lives & the first minutes that lasts a lifetime

1. Call 911 (clear information, location & events)2. Command (company leadership identified)3. Communicate (identify danger areas and give clear

direction to your people and your resources)4. Control (be decisive, delegate tasks, assign liaisons)

Internal tasks, command post, tactical operations, media

5. Contain (perimeter integrity & isolate threat)6. Coordinate (a resolution plan with first responders)7. Casualties and Reunification8. Continuity of Operation (resumption of operation)

1. Establish “Communication and Control”2. Identify the “Kill Zone”& emergency

Entry Team3. Establish the “Inner Perimeter”4. Establish the “Outer Perimeter”5. Establish the scene “Command Post”6. Establish “Staging Areas”7. Identify and Request “Additional

Resources”8. Make “Notifications”

PrivateSectorGoal is to preserve Life, Isolate, Contain, Solve

Tactical ConsiderationsLock Down, Evacuate or Active Resistance?

Actionable IntelligenceDefensible Location

Perimeter integrity fortificationStealthCover

ConcealmentAvoid Un-cleared areas

Masking & Crossfire FireHigh Ground

Tactical Movement

Tactical Movement• ACTION™ personal & family plan• “Mental Map & Conditioned

Responses” under stress• Speed, surprise, supremacy of Action• Diversion, noise, movement• Active resistance & improvised

weapons, use force to save lives• Foot positioning (strong/weak)• Facing a gun• Moving at angles• Pie & Peek techniques

Tactical Movement = SurvivalPerception & Reaction Time Advantage

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IED Safety Precautions• Assume the device is “Live.”• Do not touch the device or remove the fuse. • Do not cover the device, leave it as found.• Never place the device in water.• Evacuate persons from the vicinity.• Normal military color-coding does not apply.• Police may call the bomb unit for assistance or may use digital

photo’s sent by E-Mail.• RF: no, radio, cell transmissions.• Think ambush, secondary devices, multiple dispersed devices

and multiple simultaneous devices

ResponseIn an Emergency call 911 first

Communicate When you see it, say it!When you hear it, do it!

Activate your Incident Command & Emergency Internal Communication System(s)

Lockdown & Lockout Assist people with special needs

Evacuation (controlled) & Reverse EvacuationShelter in Place

Resistance Action as a Last Resort

The Warrior Spirit

• As our military is the “Tip of the Spear” protecting our nation by taking the fight to our enemies, we are the “Shield” protecting our cities, streets, schools homes & families.• “Spartan Oath” “This is my shield. I bear it before me in battle, but

it is not my own. It protects my brother on my left, it protects my city. I will never let my brother out of its shadow, nor my city from its shelter. I will die with my shield before me, facing my enemy.”• We must be prepared, Carpe Diem & Carpe Noctem, with a survivor

mindset; for the moment of truth (against evil) will be our hour of greatest need.

JohnSakoianhttp://commandexcellence.com/

JSakoian@hky.com412-818-3087