by David Reagan
Staff writer
Police from all over Oklahoma are volunteering to participate in SWAT-style law enforcement training exercises this year in a program called ALERRT (Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training).
The most recent multi-agency session took place Thursday with Tishomingo Police, McClain County, Choctaw Travel Police and Madill Police department. The SE campus police were included in March’s first training session, during SE students’ spring break.
The live-shooter training took place on the second and third floors of the old Hallie McKinney Dorms. The scenario involved dividing the students into two teams, with red bullets signifying “bad guys” and blue bullets signifying “good guys.”
Simulation ammunition rounds, similar to rubber bullets with chalk tips, were discharged when a team swept a room and encountered an enemy.
McClain County Officer Brandon McDonald, a student who participated Thursday, called the bullets “a mix between airsoft and paintball.”