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Showing posts with label threat assessment. Show all posts
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The Role of Threat Assessment in a School's Security Assessment
Threat Assessment: A Vital Key to Safe Schools
If you were to ask a school administrator or teacher to name a student they know who might commit an act of violence in their school, they will usually have a name immediately spring to mind. Yet often, there is little done to address that name.
What needs to be completed is a threat assessment process, one that is evidence-based, thorough, and comprehensive. The FBI has developed such a process, a tool to assist in the process, and the best news for most schools; it's free!
This process outlines a variety of traits of concern. These traits can range from comments and writings that show an obsession with violence to attitudes of intolerance and superiority, as well as the development of negative role models such as Adolf Hitler or Satan. The key to this approach is that the assessment is done using a multidisciplinary approach, using information developed by those who actually know the student.
It takes time, but it does provide detailed information about a student that the school can then use to assist the student. What the assessment doesn't do is identify a student as a "shooter", nor is the assessment used as a means of removing a student from school.
It is necessary to make time to do this, especially for that child whose name popped into your head.
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If you were to ask a school administrator or teacher to name a student they know who might commit an act of violence in their school, they will usually have a name immediately spring to mind. Yet often, there is little done to address that name.
What needs to be completed is a threat assessment process, one that is evidence-based, thorough, and comprehensive. The FBI has developed such a process, a tool to assist in the process, and the best news for most schools; it's free!
This process outlines a variety of traits of concern. These traits can range from comments and writings that show an obsession with violence to attitudes of intolerance and superiority, as well as the development of negative role models such as Adolf Hitler or Satan. The key to this approach is that the assessment is done using a multidisciplinary approach, using information developed by those who actually know the student.
It takes time, but it does provide detailed information about a student that the school can then use to assist the student. What the assessment doesn't do is identify a student as a "shooter", nor is the assessment used as a means of removing a student from school.
It is necessary to make time to do this, especially for that child whose name popped into your head.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Tucson School Locked Down after Violence Threat
Tucson, AZ
A Tucson school was placed on lockdown for five hours after an anonymous threatening note was found in the nurse’s office Friday, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
The principal of Flowing Wells Junior High School told police he found a the note, which implied the use of guns and other weapons in the school, around 9:30 a.m.
The school, located near Wetmore Road and La Cholla Boulevard, was immediately placed on lockdown and the Sheriff’s Department was called in to investigate, said Clarence Dupnik, a spokesman for the department.
Dupnik said the lockdown was kept in effect during the investigation in order to ensure a methodical and orderly threat assessment.
The Pima Regional Bomb Squad brought a specialty canine to the scene to detect explosives or guns, and the Department of Public Safety and the Davis-Monthan Airforce Base provided an additional two canines to join in the search, Dupnik said.
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A Tucson school was placed on lockdown for five hours after an anonymous threatening note was found in the nurse’s office Friday, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
The principal of Flowing Wells Junior High School told police he found a the note, which implied the use of guns and other weapons in the school, around 9:30 a.m.
The school, located near Wetmore Road and La Cholla Boulevard, was immediately placed on lockdown and the Sheriff’s Department was called in to investigate, said Clarence Dupnik, a spokesman for the department.
Dupnik said the lockdown was kept in effect during the investigation in order to ensure a methodical and orderly threat assessment.
The Pima Regional Bomb Squad brought a specialty canine to the scene to detect explosives or guns, and the Department of Public Safety and the Davis-Monthan Airforce Base provided an additional two canines to join in the search, Dupnik said.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Developing a School Safety Project
The field of school safety consulting can be a dog-eat-dog affair as consultants vie for ever-diminishing dollars. In many regards, this is good, as competition in the free market creates better products and services for the clients. However, choosing the right consultant from the number available can be quite the chore.
The first step is to understand why you need a consultant. A threat assessment is vastly different from a physical assessment, which is vastly different from doing a climate assessment. Be specific. Establish goals for your intended project, and plan out how the thing you want to do will be done. Through this process, you will identify what it is you will need. Typically in school safety, consultants provide assessments, training, a system, or a combination of all three.
You will need to know how much money you will have available for the project. This amount is the ceiling on your project. The bidding process, if done properly, should provide you with a consultant who will bid under that ceiling, leaving you a cushion to cover any unexpected expenses.
You will also need to know the time frame of your project. Will it take days, weeks, months, and how will that time frame fit into your district's budget time frame? Make sure to provide enough time to evaluate your project at the end.
Developing a Project
1. Identify what you need to have done.
a. Assessment?
b. Training?
c. A new system?
d. A combination of all the above?
2. How much money is available for the project?
3. What is the time frame of your project?
Write this up in narrative form, and get it approved by your school district's Business Officer.
In the next installment, the Request for Proposal process will be detailed.
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The first step is to understand why you need a consultant. A threat assessment is vastly different from a physical assessment, which is vastly different from doing a climate assessment. Be specific. Establish goals for your intended project, and plan out how the thing you want to do will be done. Through this process, you will identify what it is you will need. Typically in school safety, consultants provide assessments, training, a system, or a combination of all three.
You will need to know how much money you will have available for the project. This amount is the ceiling on your project. The bidding process, if done properly, should provide you with a consultant who will bid under that ceiling, leaving you a cushion to cover any unexpected expenses.
You will also need to know the time frame of your project. Will it take days, weeks, months, and how will that time frame fit into your district's budget time frame? Make sure to provide enough time to evaluate your project at the end.
Developing a Project
1. Identify what you need to have done.
a. Assessment?
b. Training?
c. A new system?
d. A combination of all the above?
2. How much money is available for the project?
3. What is the time frame of your project?
Write this up in narrative form, and get it approved by your school district's Business Officer.
In the next installment, the Request for Proposal process will be detailed.
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