NSW police are undergoing FBI-style ‘active shooter’ training in order to shoot armed attackers / extremists immediately, instead of the the “contain and negotiate” tactic used in the past.
“For more than two decades, our approach has been contain and negotiate in violent incidents,” acting Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas told The Daily Telegraph. “(But) one of the features of terrorism is these people are not like normal criminals. They don’t want to get captured and may well be prepared to die. They’re jihadis. We’ve got to act differently.”
He says training by the FBI began three weeks ago in Castle Hill, and is based on the US active shooter training.
“We recognised ‘contain and negotiate’ will probably result in more lives being lost,” he said.
Sunrise and The Today Show are reporting this as a ‘shoot first’ policy, but that is incorrect, a source in the NSW Police Force told PEDESTRIAN.TV.
“We don’t have a ‘shoot first’ policy. NSW police are in the process of going through ‘active shooter’ training so that we can eliminate the threat of lone gunman / Paris-like massacres if necessary. Almost every Western police force in the world receives similar training. In saying that, if there is someone with an assault rifle mowing down citizens, then we would ‘shoot first’.”
