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Officer tells college to 'go for the groin’
THERE’S AN INTRUDER: WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
STORY BY LAURA CANIDA
N EW S EDITOR
Photo by Jordy Villagomez
Few people will ever be faced
an active shooter in the school
or workplace. However, it is
important to know what to do if
you find yourself in a potentially
threatening situation.
College Safety hosted a “ Violent
Intruder Response Training” on
Thursday, Jan. 30. The 90-minute
training was led by Lt. Anthony
Kollias of the Clackamas County
Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team; more
thari 80 Clackamas Community
College employees and students
attended.
“ Our hope is when you leave at
the end of the day, we don’t want
you to leave afraid. We want you
to leave a little more confident,”
said Tom Sonoff who is CCC’s
Director of College Safety.
Kollias presented three tactics
to use in a violent incident:
Identifying the issue, intervention
and surviving an incident. He
also provided attendees with the
knowledge and skills to minimize
the loss of life in the event of an
aggressive intruder.
, The first thing to do is assess
whether or not you can run and
escape the situation, if you know
you can safely evacuate without
coming into contact with' the
threat; The next option is to hide
if escaping isn’t safe; barricade
access to your space, hide, silence
your devices and stay as quiet as
possible.
But if the intruder is in your
classroom and you can’t get away,
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“ You need to Tight like the third
monkey on Noah’s Ark,” Kollias
said.
AS a last resort — only if the
first two strategies fail — is to
fight. Act aggressively toward the
person creating the threatening
situation using whatever weapons
are available to you at that time.
Kollias suggested gauging out
someone’s eyes, going for the
groin or throwing something at
the intruder.
Many
items
commonly
found 'around campus and on
your person can be used as
weapons
including
scissots,
fire extinguishers, chairs, tools,
broken gla§s, staplers, heavy
backpacks and water bottles. His
presentation on the gruesome
reality of mass shootings was
punctuated with funny stories
and one liners. For example, if
you don’t have a weapon, he said,
use a pen or pencil. “ Guess what
those are? Awesome stabbing
devices.”
As the world around us changes,
the increase in critical incidents
and active shooter events could
cause worry arid stress. 'That’s
why Kollias said it’s good to have
a plan. “ If you visualize a plan
before you need it, it will be easier
to implement if needed.”
Knowing what to do if you’re
in a violent intruder situation
will help you. He said it might be
terrifying, and that to be able to
be successful, you should practice
in your mind.
“ You’ll never do it if you don’t
visualize it first,” said Kollias.
“ It’ s going to be »scary, but it’ s
going to be way less scary with a
plan in your head.”
Kollias said the way that the
community can help this problem
is by paying attention and
practicing situational awareness.
When you walk into Starbucks,
for example, look around and see
what everyone is doing. “ It might
make you feel uneasy but there’s
a reason for it.”
KolliaS also said if someone in
your life is showing behavioral
changes or making threats, take
away his or her guns. “ We can’t
take , away your guns, but you
can,” he said.
Kollias said once a month we
have fire drills in Oregon schools,
but lockdowns are only twice a
year. We don’t want to talk about
What the real problem is,” he said.
He attributed the rise in violent
shootings to everything from
working parents, a lack of mental
health services and violent video
games.
“ When I was a kid we had
Pong.”
For
further
information
contact Tom Sonoff, Director o f
College Safety at 503-594-T698
or by email at thomas. sonoff@
clackamas.edu.
Lt. Anthony Kollias of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s
Office Swat Team presents to more than 80 CCC
employees and students.
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