This month, school resource officers for Great Hearts Arizona Charter Schools used spring break to spring into action, participating in a week-long program that culminated in a full-day, scenario-based active-shooter exercise at Lincoln Preparatory Academy in Chandler
Over a dozen officers participated in the four-day SRO Academy training provided by Wasson Protection, which emphasizes proficiency in both tactical and day-to-day tasks as they function on Great Hearts campuses.
The training includes medical skills such as first aid, CPR, AED use and Stop the Bleed; tactical skills such as taser and pepper spray (OC spray) use, and scenario training with airsoft guns; as well as technical and administrative skills such as report writing, legal updates and radio etiquette…