By LINDSAY CAREYSTAFF WRITER Shooter Detection Systems (SDS) held an Active Shooter Demonstration event on Thursday, April 2 at the King 33 Public Safety Training with the help of the Southington Police Department. The demonstration included two scenarios to show potential customers the impact the Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System can have on the outcome of an active shooter event. The King 33 facility simulated an office layout with several different rooms and positioned an armed Southington Police Department officer inside as an “active shooter”. After a shot was fired in the building, the visitors and legislators who attended the event could see how the incident would play out in one scenario without the Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System and another using the system. Several shots were fired and the shooter actually made it through the building and into the same room where the audience was. First responders did not find the shooter because of the confusion between the reports from different people within the office setting played out through 911 calls on loud speakers. In the second scenario, the Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System reported that a shot was fired and the location of the shot […]
By LINDSAY CAREYSTAFF WRITER Shooter Detection Systems (SDS) held an Active Shooter Demonstration event on Thursday, April 2 at the King 33 Public Safety Training with the help of the Southington Police Department. The demonstration included two scenarios to show potential customers the impact the Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System can have on the outcome of an active shooter event. The King 33 facility simulated an office layout with several different rooms and positioned an armed Southington Police Department officer inside as an “active shooter”. After a shot was fired in the building, the visitors and legislators who attended the event could see how the incident would play out in one scenario without the Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System and another using the system. Several shots were fired and the shooter actually made it through the building and into the same room where the audience was. First responders did not find the shooter because of the confusion between the reports from different people within the office setting played out through 911 calls on loud speakers. In the second scenario, the Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System reported that a shot was fired and the location of the shot […]