COMPLIANCE INFO_2020 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN description of the person in question, and the weapon. Write down everything you have seen and heard. When the situation is over, give a copy of your notes to the police along with your name and phone number. Notification to Police of an Act of Violence or Crime In the event that you observe an act of violence or crime in progress, notify the police immediately, try to remain as calm as you can, and be ready to provide the police with the following: • The location of the problem, include the street address as well as the location within the building. • A short description of what is taking place, parties involved, if anyone is injured, and if weapons are involved. • The number of the phone from which you are calling. • In serious crime situations the police may ask you to remain on the phone with them. Answer any questions they ask even if it does not seem important. If you are observing an act of violence or crime in progress, the best course of action may be to conceal yourself or leave the area and summon help as soon as possible. Your goal is to prevent injury to yourself and others. If you cannot conceal yourself or leave and resistance is not the best course of action at the moment, then utilize the following techniques and await your opportunity. It will come. • Do not antagonize the suspect. • Avoid looking directly at or in a confrontational manner at the suspect. • Follow the suspect's directions. • Do not call attention to yourself by volunteering to try to be helpful. • Try to establish a conversation with the suspect on neutral subjects as long as it does not cause anger or agitation. You want the suspect to see you as a person not as an object. • Realize that it is easy to become sympathetic with a suspect and his/her problems as time passes. Never forget that he/she is responsible for what is taking place. The suspect is the threat, not security or the police. • Never give up. • If there are multiple victims, offer support to each other. • Keep looking for an opportunity to escape, resist or summon help. It will come. • If in your best judgment your only opportunity to avoid severe injury or death lies in resistance, then your goal is to escape and/or summon help. • Plan your attack. • Identify your escape route. • Attack only for as long as it takes you to provide a means of escape. • You should identify locations in your building that can secure so that intruders cannot immediately force their way in. These locations should have locks that 12