From the police forum
http://www.policeforum.org/assets/docs/Critical_Issues_Series/the%20police%20response%20to%20active%20shooter%20incidents%202014.pdf
The shooter may be stopped by
arrest, by containment, or by use of deadly force.
And some policies note that when an active
shooter incident occurs at a school, a School
Resource Officer (SRO) may be the first officer at
the scene who must make a decision about whether
to respond alone.
Other departments require that officers wait
until a certain number of officers have arrived.
Those officers are instructed to form a “contact
team” that responds as a unit with the mission of
stopping the shooter and preventing his escape.
Some departments’ policies recommend a con-
tact team of a certain size—often four officers—but
also specify that fewer officers may respond if it is
apparent that a full contact team cannot be assem-
bled quickly. Some of these agencies caution that
a smaller team should be deployed only as a last
resort.
Some policies provide that only one contact
team should be deployed, and that officers who
arrive at the scene later may join that contact team.
Other departments call for multiple contact teams
to be deployed quickly as additional officers arrive
at the scene. If multiple teams are deployed, their
movements and actions should be tracked and coor
-
dinated by a designated commander, to ensure that
they don’t unknowingly cross paths with each other
or spend time on redundant searches, for example.
Some departments do not offer specific guid-
ance on how many officers should be at the scene
before at least one officer moves to stop the shooter,
saying only that those decisions must be made on
a case-by-case basis, depending on circumstances.
And order in coffee and donuts so they can debate whether they will get around to saving lives?
Oh, and be sure to order in some earplugs so they don't have to listen to the gunshots and screams of the unarmed victims being slaughtered inside while they have your little coffee klatch outside.
Bureaucratic rules being promulgated by administrators with no respect for the lives being lost a short walk away. This is what modern law enforcement has become. If that SRO was so righteous, why was he put on unpaid leave days after the truth came out? Because he failed in his duty to protect the lives entrusted to him. Why have two others been suspended as well? Because they failed. There seems to be a lot of failure to act going around in Broward County and Florida at many levels.