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Article: What if shootings happened here? Police, Bangor Mall team up to be ready if violence strikes at home
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- February 27, 2008
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BANGOR - An announcement made over the Bangor Mall's loudspeaker
instructed tenants to lower their storefront gates and take cover. A
few moments later, three Bangor police officers entered the mall
through a main entrance door with their guns drawn.
The steps were taken Tuesday as part of a mock active shooter
drill that was organized cooperatively with mall managers and
operations staff, store tenants and police officials.
"There are certain procedures that we do differently in an active
shooter situation than we would in a fire drill or mall evacuation,
but the premise is to prepare," mall manager James Gerety said after
the drill. "I feel it went very well."
The mall was closed for a ...
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