[Scan-DC] active shooter EXERCISE

[Alan Henney]

DEPARTMENT OF POLICE
MEDIA SERVICES DIVISION
2350 RESEARCH BOULEVARD
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND   20850-3294

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE          FOR MORE INFORMATION:
October 20, 2010 Media Services Division

Media Advisory

Montgomery County Law Enforcement Agencies and Fire/Rescue Conduct
"Public Safety Emergency Exercise"

WHEN: Sunday, October 24, 2010
  6:00 a.m. - noon
  (Set up 6:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., exercises from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.)

WHERE: Universities at Shady Grove campus
  9630 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville
  Activities in parking lots serving the three academic buildings

WHAT: A cooperative exercise which involves staging a full-scale response as 
though there were a real active shooter incident.

 Montgomery County Police in cooperation with the Montgomery County 
Department of Fire and Rescue Services, the Montgomery County Sheriff's 
Office, the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission Police, 
Gaithersburg Police, Rockville City Police, Takoma Park Police, Maryland 
State Police, and University of Maryland Baltimore County Police will 
participate in this Public Safety Training.
Montgomery County Police want to alert the business and residential 
Rockville communities near the Universities at Shady Grove that these 
exercises will be taking place this Sunday.  The parking lots would be 
visible to those driving on the roadway that provides access to the parking 
lots.  Public in the area can expect the following:  numerous public safety 
personnel in uniforms and tactical gear, numerous public safety and tactical 
vehicles, law enforcement officers maintaining a safety perimeter around the 
campus, traffic officers on Gudelsky Drive and Traville Gateway Drive to 
facilitate the flow of traffic.  There will not be lights and sirens 
activated; however there will be the sporadic sounds of simulated gunfire 
between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.

 All participating agencies want to assure the community that this is a 
training exercise, even though it will be conducted as though it is a 
response to a real and critical emergency.

 This training exercise is being partially funded by the U.S. Department of 
Homeland Security's Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant.

***Members of the media are invited to attend from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 
Those who would potentially like to attend should contact the Media Services 
Division no later than 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 22.  ***

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