Clery Acting
July 21, 2010
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Inside Higher Ed (Online)
By Iza Wojciechowska
“Emergency helicopters, a SWAT team and armed state police officers descended on Hamilton College Tuesday in what seemed like a full-blown emergency complete with gunmen, a hostage, and victims carried away on stretchers. No one was hurt -- and, in fact, nothing really happened.”
“In collaboration with the New York State Police, Hamilton conducted a full-scale emergency preparedness drill. The simulated hostage situation was meant to test the responses of Hamilton’s administration and campus security, as well as the procedures of about 100 officers from the NYSP, the Utica SWAT team and police departments from several suburbs and the county. …”
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