NCPD stages anti-terror drills

The Nassau County Police Department was joined by several other local police departments on Sunday in conducting training exercises to address active shooter or terror attack scenarios.

Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said that the terror attacks in France and the shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last Friday served to inform the training that officers receive. “There are always take-aways,” he said, “which we utilize to push into training exercises such as this to make sure our law enforcement officers are the most prepared anywhere.”

The exercises were held at Nassau Community College in Garden City and New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury. They included evaluation of initial response, resource deployment, incident command and management, communication coordination, inter-agency coordination, intelligence integration, medical response and investigative actions, according to the NCPD. The Department of Homeland Security provided a $40,000 grant for the training.

More than a dozen agencies participated, including the 3rd and 2nd Precincts, the Bureau of Special Operations, the Emergency Services Unit, the Emergency Ambulance Bureau, the K9 unit, the aviation unit, the Homeland Security Unit, the 3rd, 2nd and Arson Bomb Detective Squads, and the Intelligence Unit. Also participating were the Garden City Police Department, the Hempstead Police Department, the Old Westbury Police Department, Old Brookville Police Department, New York State Police and the Nassau County Office of Emergency Management.