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Paulding County sheriff highlights ALERT school training, staffing and equipment upgrades
Summary
Sheriff Ashley Henson described active-shooter (ALERT) training at Paulding County High School, detailed organizational changes in the sheriff's office, and announced equipment and staffing moves including a body-camera grant and new specialized units.
Sheriff Ashley Henson told the Board of Commissioners that Paulding County deputies spent fall break conducting Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERT) at Paulding County High School to practice integrated active-shooter response with other county first responders.
Henson said the on-site exercises let deputies learn building layouts and ‘‘proper building-clearing techniques,’’ and practice incident command and cross-agency coordination with Paulding County EMS and Paulding County Emergency Management Agency. "Bringing the fire department in is probably the biggest success to this because deputies are now getting a lot of tactical training for wound care, but it's never going to be as good as those EMTs, those paramedics, and those firefighters," Henson said.
The training was part of a broader presentation in…
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