Active Shooter Drill at Jefferson Middle

Active Shooter Drill at Jefferson Middle School
Staff Photo by Sara May

THP, Jefferson County School personnel, Jefferson City Police Dept., White Pine Police, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Dept. SORT team and K-9 Draco, Jefferson City Fire, Jefferson County EMS, Fema, Tema, JCHS criminal Justice students, Jefferson County E911 and evaluators from surrounding agencies took part in an active shooter training drill at Jefferson Middle School. As a part of the simulated shooter incident, law enforcement made entry and eliminated the active shooters inside the school. After law enforcement eliminated the would be shooters, the SORT team cleared the school of any other threats so EMS could come in and give aid to the injured, who were dramatized by the JCHS criminal justice students. The school remained on lockdown during the training exercise until all simulated threats had been cleared. A meeting followed with all involved parties to have a discussion on the positive and negatives of the enactment exercise, which is designed to streamline the response time and efficiency of response, should an actual emergency occur. This is the second simulated training incident, with the first taking place earlier at Jefferson County High School.