Miami-Dade’s community relations board comes together to discuss county’s unique mass casualties response plan

MIAMI – Miami-Dade County Neighborhood Relations board met Wednesday with the Prison Justice and Regulation Enforcement Committee, and one matter that caught consideration was their lively shooter coaching.  

The general public had a query for the officers: If one thing tragic like Uvalde have been to occur in Miami-Dade what would that seem like for regulation enforcement? They have been stern with their response, saying they might go in and cease the shooter, not wait.

“We all know one thing’s taking place in there, there’s an lively shooter have been getting into. There isn’t any hesitation,” mentioned Maj. Carlos Gonzalez, who can also be the director of the Miami-Dade Public Security Coaching Institute. 

Gonzalez confirmed they may go proper in to cease an lively shooter in your kid’s college. 

The director of the Miami-Dade Police Division echoed that.  

“However know, that God forbid a state of affairs have been to occur Miami-Dade, police and our native municipal companions will probably be prepared and can act and can transfer ahead to cease the killing and cease the dying,” mentioned Freddy Ramirez.

This coaching, beneath their PRT or precedence response workforce, the consultants of their mass casualty method, will not be a brand new program, Gonzalez says. 

“Each different week we usher in officers from across the county. It isn’t the identical group of officers each time they usually prepare. They prepare with reference to techniques the best way to method, what our functions are what expectations we have now of them and our motto and goal of coaching is cease the killing cease the dying,” mentioned Gonzalez.  

Ramirez says they’ve been engaged on this response because the tragedy in Parkland.   

Since they began, their coaching has remained the identical. Ramirez says there is a massive a part of group assist in relation to stopping mass shootings from taking place.  

“Collaboration with our group companions, our mother and father, that in the event that they see one thing suspicious exercise, in tweets, footage, no matter it’s to report it so we will get to it earlier than it finally ends up a state of affairs like that,” mentioned Ramirez.  

Officers prepare bi-weekly, so if there have been to be an lively shooter incident, they are going to be ready the second the decision is available in.  

“There may be not name for every other kind of state of affairs we won’t deal with it like a barricaded topic or hostage state of affairs it is lively shooter. So, we enter, we undergo we go over the techniques. We additionally present that coaching to everybody that goes by our academy so the second they’re out they’re able to go,” mentioned Gonzalez.  

This PRT mission isn’t just for public colleges. This consists of non-public and constitution colleges in addition to procuring malls, locations of worship and hospitals.