Scenario:

You are the Director of Public Safety for a community of 200,000 residents. In your capacity as Director, you oversee police, fire, and all emergency services operations for this affluent community. While you have over twenty years of public safety experience, you have been in your current position for five years and are well known and respected in the community.

You have been approached by the Headmaster, Dr. Neal Starr of the Legacy Academy. The Legacy Academy is an exclusive K-12 private school in your jurisdiction. Dr. Starr has asked you to accompany him in a special meeting with his six-member Board of Governors. Their goal is to develop and operationalize an emergency response plan for the Legacy Academy that attempts to adequately protect the students, faculty, staff, and visitors during an active shooter situation on campus. The headmaster and the board openly admit they have no expertise in this area and need your guidance first developing an emergency operations plan. In addition, they would like recommendations on how they can train their staff and faculty members.

Besides the recent rash of school shootings in the media, the headmaster calls attention to the fact that the student body does include "high profile" students who are children of varying ages and whose parents are nationally recognized icons in their respective professional domains. The headmaster and the Board of Governors will be the "audience" for your typed proposal of topical areas to be considered essential in the development of the emergency operations plan.

You have been given complete access to the campus and are free to appropriately describe actionable aspects of the campus as you see fit. In other words, you may envision the campus, its buildings, its architecture, its total environment; however you must think about whether it will contribute to your development of the emergency response plan and the topical areas for the plan.

Question

Describe in a well-developed narrative and include the topical areas that you would consider essential in the development of an emergency operations plan for a scenario of this type. While this Final Exam Essay must be a minimum of 1,000 words, you may be as detailed as you see fit in the preparation of your response; there is no maximum word count expectation.

You are not required to produce the complete actual emergency operations plan, but you are expected to develop the categories of the plan, with corresponding bullet statements about the variety and depth of issues covered under each category. Within your essay response you should articulate your rationale for selecting each of the topical areas, as well as the anticipated benefits and your purpose in incorporating the topical area in the formal plan.