Be aware of who’s looking at you. Report suspicious surveillance activities and take action. Remember that many assailants use surveillance as a planning tool,
Fences and locked doors don’t work if the threat is an insider. IDENTIFY the threat, COMMUNICATE the threat, ACT on the threat. Prevention and interventions are left-of-bang strategies.
Close calls (near misses) are not harmless because they lead to bad outcomes. Develop a close call reporting system to intervene before little things become big things.
Your encounter with responding police is a tense situation. Proper actions will safe your life, and improper actions such as waving something in your hands, or failing to comply to commands, may get you shot.
A hospital received an immediate and credible threat. They initiated a lockout/lockdown and notified police. An armed man was apprehended on block from the hospital.