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I personally have not done this type of drill, but I have done planning, drills etc for Bomb, animal rights etc

What is the aim of this drill, in the sense of staff training or planning?

A few more details my help, PM if you want.

Just to be clear.
We have a procedure which is based on the NACTSO dynamic lockdown guidance and our existing assessments from security engineers and counter terrorism advisers.
Our local CTSAs have offered to augment our observers during the drill.

My question is simply whether anyone else (outside of education) has carried out a lockdown drill.

Many thanks

Wright-Reid

In connection with your original 3rd question, I know that Greater Manchester Police (GMP) held an anti-terrorist response training exercise earlier this month at The Trafford (shopping) Centre in the Manchester area. According to subsequent media publicity, it involved at least one mock gunman, so it's quite possible that the centre operator and tenants, i.e. numerous retail outlets, practiced dynamic lockdown procedures. However, I don't know of any contacts for them.

On a slightly related note, a H&S adviser with GMP gave an interesting presentation earlier this year about H&S issues regarding firearms training at a meeting of the Public Services Section of IOSH Manchester Branch. If I heard him correctly, increasing numbers of police officers throughout the UK have been/are being trained to use firearms so as to be able to provide a good degree of responsiveness to the increased threat of terrorism.

Also, active shooter event' is surely a particularly American expression for the multiple shooting type incidents which, sadly, occur too often in the USA and are usually perpetrated by deranged individuals who are motivated by personal grudges and don't really come within the category of 'terrorist'. The existence of gun shops in the USA and the ease with which adults can apparently walk into them and buy guns and ammunition seems totally abhorrent to us in the UK. It's also appalling to see fairly regular media reports of instances in the USA where adults or children have died or been seriously injured through children, including very young ones, finding and playing with loaded guns, usually ones owned by their parents.

Graham B