WCTC's Brian Dorow talks law enforcement training

OAK CREEK -- Brian Dorow with Waukesha County Technical College joined FOX6 WakeUp News to talk about how law enforcement officers train for the type of tragedy that occurred at Sikh Temple in Oak Creek.

FOX6's Kim Murphy: "Describe the type of training that law enforcement officials go through -- the type of scenarios."

Dorow: "We do the Active Shooter Training. We don't want law enforcement, when they're responding this situation, (for) this (to be) the first time they're ever seeing this type of scenario. What we do is train them in the Active Shooter Response Model. We want them to be very familiar with this concept in the event this caliber comes in."

Nicole Koglin: "Does part of law enforcement training involve learning to keep your emotions in-check?"

Dorow: "It's about remaining calm. These law enforcement officers know when this call comes in they are responding to an active shooter, which means in all likelihood they are going to encounter a dangerous situation. So we want them to be highly trained so when the fear is there, everything kicks back into training."

Murphy: "Lets go through the incident scene-by-scene. You talk about encountering the active shooter and that is exactly what happened at Sikh temple in Oak Creek. Two officers who first arrived on the scene came face-to-face with shooter."

Dorow: "It's a split-second decision. The officer has to make an immediate identification of the suspect. They're are trained to acquire the suspect and learn how to single them (the suspect) out."

Koglin: "Part of what you do in mass casualty training is study how the officer's respond, and review 911 calls."

Dorow: "We do, we look at all of it because we want to continue to enhance the training. We know the sooner the resources get on the scene the less fatalities may occur. It's all based on training the law enforcement community. With our Mass Casualty training we actually do cross representation training with the Fire Department and EMS, because we have to care for the victims, but we also have to keep moving toward the threat."

Murphy: "As 911 calls came in for the Oak Creek Temple shooting it was unclear if there was one shooter involved or more and if there were any hostages. Being unclear about the number of suspects and victims can complicated a situation even more."

Dorow: "It does, because essentially you have an active shooter situation where law enforcement has to get in there and identify the threat and take down the treat, at the same time you may have to back out if you have a hostage situation because you want to start some form of negotiations.Turned out not to be the case in the Sikh temple shooting."

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