{"id":8335,"date":"2025-09-04T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=8335"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:04:19","slug":"campus-police-talk-potential-active-shooter-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/09\/04\/campus-police-talk-potential-active-shooter-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus police talk potential active shooter drill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 At the start of this semester, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/student-resources\/campus-safety\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troy University Police Department<\/a> (TUPD) released its guidance for what students should do during a school shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan is called run, hide, fight, and aims to teach students, faculty, and staff what to do in case of an active threat on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst and foremost, if you hear gunfire, you would want to find yourself an escape route of some sort,&#8221; TUPD Chief George Beaudry said. &#8220;It\u2019s going to depend on the proximity of the gunfire. If it\u2019s anywhere near you, you have to evaluate whether to run, hide, or fight. A decision has to be made on where you are when you hear the gunfire and how close it is to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Beaudry, plans for an active shooter drill have been in the works with Troy University&#8217;s administration for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There are conversations that have taken place between myself and the administration about an active shooter drill,&#8221; Beaudry said. &#8220;We are working on that and we think it&#8217;s important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no specific timeline on it right now because there are a lot of preparations that have to be done before then. We have to some documentation of the plan first. If we were to exercise tomorrow, I think we would be a little premature just because the plan isn\u2019t fully set in stone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/08\/28\/tupd-warns-students-about-new-thc-related-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>RECENT COVERAGE: TUPD warns students about new THC-related law<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though the plans for an active shooter aren\u2019t ready, Beaudry says TUPD is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to the active shooter or mass casualty type drill our officers are practicing more than once a year on how to respond to these situations,&#8221; Beaudry said. &#8220;A major piece of the puzzle is knowing that our officers are prepared.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though there is no timeline on an active shooter drill, students are still encouraged to follow run, hide, fight if the situation arises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For emergencies, people can contact TUPD at 911. For non-emergencies, people are asked to call (334) 670-3215.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about Run. Hide. Fight. can be found on the Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8217;s (FBI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/how-we-can-help-you\/active-shooter-safety-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 At the start of this semester, the Troy University Police Department (TUPD) released its guidance for what students should do during a school shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is called run, hide, fight, and aims to teach students, faculty, and staff what to do in case of an active threat on campus. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/09\/04\/campus-police-talk-potential-active-shooter-drill\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":8420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2405,1142,2432,2431,1834,1832],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-8335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-troy-university-george-beaudry","tag-troy-university-police-department","tag-troy-university-police-department-chief","tag-troy-university-run-hide-fight","tag-troy-university-safety","tag-troy-university-shooting","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8419,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions\/8419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8335"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=8335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}