By Dean Guccione - December 20, 2018

As you prepare for your Lieutenant or Captain’s promotional exam, there is a good chance you may face an Active Shooter simulation or discussion problem in the tactical portion of your exam, similar to what we saw in Santa Fe, Texas yesterday.

And I want you to be ready.

Or, if you don’t have a tactical situational problem, you may be asked in your interview about your department’s policy regarding active shooter incidents.

And again, I want you to be ready.

There are a couple of areas I want you to think about, as you not only train on active shooter incidents in your department, but also as you’re preparing for your promotional exam.

Those two areas are - Situational Awareness and Haz-Mat.

Situational Awareness

I want you to always be thinking about situational awareness in active shooter incidents because these types of incidents are fluid and are constantly moving until the shooter is either killed or taken into...