Active Shooter, those words strike terror in everyone’s heart, especially if you have children or grandchildren in school. We believe that we are safe out here in the sticks, we believe that our children are safe at our little school in the middle of nowhere, and we are. We are because the people we trust to keep us safe, know that we are not, and they plan for the worst. I am proud to share that our Licking County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with the Northridge Local School District and the Village of Alexandria will be conducting extensive Single Officer Response to Active Threats, or S.O.R.A.T. training here in Alexandria. Beginning Monday November 1 ,2021 Licking County Sheriff Deputies and various other local agencies will be training at the old Northridge Primary school building. It will be a 3-week training course from 7:AM to Midnight specifically designed to give officers the skills needed to respond to an active threat in a school. During this time expect to see emergency response vehicles and unmarked vehicles arriving at the old elementary school. We will hear gun shots as officers undergo extensive training with special non-lethal paintball type training weapons. I am very grateful to the Sheriffs Office for undergoing this training and the Northridge School District for making the building available, we will all be safer because of it.
Mayor, Jim Jasper. Village of Alexandria 740-739-0698
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December 2023
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