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County emergency
managers and sheriffs ready to help schools with bomb threat procedures
The Office of Homeland
Security in Pierre recently provided bomb threat procedures to all sheriffs’
offices and county emergency coordinators throughout the state.
Schools that do not have procedures in place for responding to bomb threats
are urged to contact either the local sheriff or the county emergency
coordinator for a copy of the procedures and whatever other assistance is
needed.
According to
information received from the SD Dept. of Public Safety, a pair of
publications, “Recommended Bomb Threat Procedures for Schools” and “Bomb
Threat Aid,” is now available in both sheriffs’ offices and county emergency
offices. The goal is to assist every school in the state in establishing
appropriate procedures for reacting to bomb threats.
“Recommended Bomb
Threat Procedures for Schools” outlines step-by-step procedures a school
should follow if a bomb threat is received or if a suspicious package is
discovered. “Bomb Threat Aid” is a form that can be located near the
school’s phones and used by whoever answers the phone in the case of a
phoned-in bomb threat. The form will help the person receiving the bomb
threat record information that will be helpful to investigators arriving on
the scene; it includes questions that the person can try to ask the caller
in order to get more details.
A list of County
Emergency Managers is available online at
http://www.state.sd.us/dps/sddem/field/county.htm. |
