The new mandatory four-hour curriculum began this month in Lubbock.
- Texas police chiefs have started taking active shooter response training as part of their required continuing education classes.The chiefs learned about the terminologies that are often used during active shooter incidents.
"Across the board, all the way from top to bottom, we all understand the terminology and frankly, we understand the expectations of law enforcement in a critical incident like this," Perdue said."Go to the threat and neutralize the threat." That school district recently fired Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who was the on-scene commander that day, and received sharp criticism for taking more than one hour to pursue the gunman.
Unlike Uvalde, he said most chiefs aren't incident commanders, but that the training is vital, so chiefs have this knowledge about active shooter situations.
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