Crime & Safety

Milton Police Organize Free Active Shooter Seminar

The two-hour course will be held on Tuesday, May 17 at Stonecreek Church.

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MILTON, GA -- It's all too frequent in the news: a person enters a building with a gun and opens fire. Imagining what you might do in that situation is not a fun or easy task, but Milton police say it's an important one.

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With that in mind, residents are invited to join the Milton Police Department's Community Response Unit as it host a free active shooter safety seminar later this month.

The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 17 at Stonecreek Church, located at 13540 Highway 9. You can reserve your spot by clicking here.

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Several Milton Police Department instructors will be on-hand to help teach the two-hour course, which will cover life-saving strategies to help in an active shooter situation and to raise awareness of behaviors that represent pre-incident indicators and characteristics of active shooters.

After the seminar, the instructors will be available to answer questions.

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