Fort Bragg Police Department

Standard operating procedure for emergency services personal is an "All Hands-on Deck" response, IMPLEMENTED Fort Bragg Police Department Policy 415-Rapid Response and Deployment. This policy identifies guidelines and factors that will assist responding officers in situations that call for rapid response and deployment. Fort Bragg Police officers have trained and equipped to respond to any violent incident at schools, workplace, and other locations, (Attachment F2).

Due to County's geographic challenges, including cities and remote rural areas, this is no optimum incident response time by the emergency services personnel. According to a 2013 FBI study, almost 70% of gun-related active assailant events last just five minutes. A third of those last fewer than two minutes. IMPLEMENTED Within the city of Fort Bragg, we do not have any "geographical challenges" with a timely response to any violent school incident. The location of schools within the jurisdiction of the city allows Fort Bragg Police Officers to respond within two to three minutes upon any reported incident. I have provided two maps to this report to show the relationship of the school to each other, police station and hospital, (Attachments F

Response time to an incident of five minutes or more is not acceptable. According to a 2013 FBI study, almost 70% of gun-related active assailant events last just five minutes. A third of those last/ewer than two minutes. IMPLEMENTED As stated above in F4 and shown on the maps provided, Fort Bragg Police Officers can respond to any violent school incident within two to three minutes. Rl The BOS work with the County Sheriff's Department to develop a plan inclusive of law enforcement agencies (city, county, state) to place an off icer in a locale where the average campus incident response time should be no greater than five minutes, (FI-F2, F-4-F5). IMPLEMENTED Fort Bragg Police Department and the Fort Bragg Unified School District unified their resources and obtained a Proposition 56 Tobacco Grant to fund a full-time school resource officer (SRO) for three years. The police officer assigned to this position had previous experience as a school resource officer and is bi-lingual. SRO Oscar Lopez has an office at Noyo High and the Fort Bragg High School. SRO Lopez attends the other school during the week and wears a visible name identification tag. On the back of his ID nametag is instructions and procedure to all staff on Emergency Lockdown Procedures for teachers, (Attachment Rl). Officer Lopez is responsible for all criminal activity at all of the schools as well as educating students about Tobacco violations. The enforcement of tobacco laws involves educating student violators as well as their parents.