Bergen County debuts instruction video for schools that face armed intruders
Monday, January 14, 2013 Last updated: Monday January 14, 2013, 9:23 PM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Bergen County law enforcement authorities have made a video, complete with dramatizations about real-life school shootings, that may be used to educate teachers across the state about how to respond to armed intruders, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said Monday.
The video is expected to be reviewed by the state Department of Education for approval before being released for use in schools, Molinelli said.; It is “a mirror image” of another recently made video that will be used to train police in “active shooter response,” he said.
The two videos have been in the works for nearly two years, Molinelli said. The school video is “unique” because it addresses actual events that occurred during shootings at schools across the nation over the past 10 years, he said. The contents of the police video, he said, would not be released for security reasons.
The timing of the videos’ release, he said, had nothing to do with the recent mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. “It’s just a tragic irony it’s rolling out now,” he said.