07 - Active Shooter Response

Active Shooter Response is a title in Action Training Systems' Incident Command & Management range, supplied in South Africa by SkillsTrain, the authorised ATS distributor. An active shooter or hostile event puts fire, emergency medical services and law enforcement on the same ground at the same time, and the command and coordination considerations are what this title addresses, rather than tactical law enforcement response.

Unified command, casualty collection and the integration of multiple agencies under one structure are the focus, sitting within ATS's Incident Command & Management range.

Like the rest of the ATS range, the title uses an interactive teach, test and track model: it does not only quiz a learner, it teaches, and when an answer is wrong the course stops, backs up and replays the material before letting them move on. ATS puts the average length of its interactive courses at about an hour. It sits in ATS's Incident Command & Management range, built around incident command system (ICS) structure and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) rather than a single professional-qualification number.

Within the same Incident Command & Management range, SkillsTrain also supplies The National Incident Management System (NIMS), Fire Service: Initial Command, Fire Service: Expanding Command and ICS: EMS Operations, so a department can source the whole pathway from one supplier.

As the authorised ATS distributor in South Africa, SkillsTrain supplies it as an interactive online video course and on USB, individually or as part of the complete series, so South African services can buy ATS content locally rather than importing it directly. Who it is for: fire and EMS officers who need active shooter command awareness alongside their broader incident command training.