St. Charles Police, District 303 Team Up for School Safety
Half of the department underwent rapid deployment training in the old Kaneland Middle School on the day before the Sandy Hook School Rampage in Connecticut; the rest of the department undergoes training Thursday.
St. Charles and Community Unit School District 303 officials on Wednesday assured residents the two agencies have been and will continue to work together to ensure the safety of the students at local schools. The announcement came the same day the St. Charles Police Department met with members of the media to explain half the department’s officers would be undergoing a rapid deployment training exercise on Thursday at the old Kaneland Middle School in Maple Park. Police Chief Jim Lamkin said the training exercise had been planned long before a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last Friday, murdering 20 children and six adults before taking his own life. In fact, Lamkin said, half the department had undergone …
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