HOSTILE INTRUDER INCIDENT

AACC DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

The following guidelines are intended to reduce your personal risk in the unlikely event that an Hostile Intruder Incident should occur on campus.

If Hostile Intruder is using a gun and you are outside, you should take immediate cover, preferably inside a building, circumstances permitting:

Secure immediate area:

• Lock and barricade doors

• Turn off lights

• Close blinds

• Block windows

• Turn off radios and computer monitors

• Keep occupants calm, quiet, and out of sight

• Keep yourself out of sight and take adequate cover/protection i.e. concrete walls, thick desks, filing cabinets (cover may protect you from bullets)

• Silence cell phones

• Place signs in exterior windows to identify the location of injured persons

Un-Securing an area:

• Consider risks before un-securing rooms

• Remember, the shooter will not stop until they are engaged by an outside force

• Attempts to rescue people should only be attempted if it can be accomplished without  further 
   endangering the persons inside a secured area.

• Consider the safety of masses -vs- the safety of a few

• If doubt exists for the safety of the individuals inside the room, the area should remain   secured

Contacting Authorities:

• Use Emergency 911

• AACC Public Safety - 410-777-1818
  (Arnold Campus phones dial ext. 1818)
  (Glen Burnie Town Center phones dial ext. 2573)
  (AACC at Arundel Mills phones dial ext. 1934)

What to Report:

• Your specific location- building name and office/room number

• Number of people at your specific location

• Injuries- number injured, types of injuries

• Assailant(s)- location, number of suspects, race/gender, clothing description, physical   features, type of  weapons (long gun or hand gun), backpack, shooters identity if known, separate explosions from gunfire,  etc.

Police Response:

• Objective is to immediately engage assailant(s)

• Evacuate victims

• Facilitate follow up medical care, interviews, counseling

• Investigation