After Paris, NYPD expanding ‘active shooter’ training

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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, acknowledges Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan, not pictured, as he is requested to reaffirm the city’s appreciation for the NYPD alongside NYPD’s Chief of Department James O’Neill, center, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, during mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, in New York. The previous day an armed man walked up to two New York Police Department officers sitting inside a patrol car and opened fire Saturday afternoon, killing both before running into a nearby subway station and committing suicide, police said.

Associated Press

Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 | 11:59 a.m.

NEW YORK — In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, New York's Police Department is quietly expanding training for "active shooter" situations in which terrorists arm themselves with high-powered rifles and open fire.

Commissioner William Bratton says the new training for the nation's largest police force is based in part on lessons brought back from an NYPD team that was sent to Paris and given widespread access to the scene of the shootings.

Bratton says every police officer will be given information to carry in their memo books on how to deal with active shooters.

And he says more officers will be trained like the NYPD's elite Emergency Services Unit, which responds to the most dangerous situations, from shootings to terror attacks.