Avoid | Deny| Defend
This video was developed by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Program at Texas State University.
Learn what behaviors to avoid in an active shooter situation and access educational tools that teach you personal safety in a shooting event.
If you see suspicious activity, call USCPD at 911 or 803-777-4215.
If someone enters the building you are in and begins shooting, follow these steps.
The most successful strategy for surviving an active shooter event is to avoid the situation altogether. This includes prevention strategies such as early identification, intervention, and awareness.
If you believe that someone may pose a threat to themselves or others, call for help immediately.
If the situation has not reached a critical stage, you may opt to call our non-emergency number (803-777-4215), let us know via the Rave Guardian Safety App, or use a referral system such as the university’s Student Care and Outreach Team. Always pay attention to your surroundings.
If something doesn’t seem right, act on your intuition and leave the area, if possible. Use your best judgment to avoid the threat by determining whether it would be safer to evacuate or remain inside.
If the threat is imminent or the attack has already begun, do not hesitate. Call 911
as you proceed to the safest location based on your assessment of what’s happening
around you. The more distance and barriers you can place between you and the threat,
the better. Do not activate fire alarms, as you may endanger others who would be safer
remaining in their present location.
If getting away is difficult or impossible, you should still create distance and barriers between you and the threat.
If you cannot Avoid or Deny, be prepared to Defend yourself using whatever means necessary. This is about your survival — do not fight fairly.
Show your hands and follow all commands. Uniformed officers may or may not be the first on scene. Plain clothes officers or officers wearing different colors and styles of uniforms may respond.
Officers not in uniform, will likely have some form of visual indication that they are law enforcement, such as a police badge on their belt or a patch on their shirt or sleeve.
This video was developed by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Program at Texas State University.
Readyhoustontx.gov produced the Run. Hide. Fight. video to educate the public on options if faced with an active shooter situation.