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Friday, February 15, 2013

Bank of Canton Hosts 'ALICE' Shooter Response Training

Officers from Canton and Norwood and a school official from Sharon were among those who attended.

More than 100 police, safety and school officials from across the county descended upon the Bank of Canton headquarters earlier this month to take part in a shooter-response training seminar. The event, hosted by Norfolk DA Michael Morrissey last week, involved the presentation of the ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) program, which was developed by former SWAT police officer Greg Cane and Lisa Cane, a school principal. The training was held in donated seminar space at the headquarters of the Bank of Canton; live-action demonstration was held in the now-vacant Avery School in Dedham. The classroom training included an analysis of 25 years of school shooting incidents, and which actions helped end the incidents more quickly…

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