19 April 2023

WATCH: Emergency services conduct school shooting training exercise at Canberra school

| James Coleman
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Emergency services training event at Lake Ginninderra College. Photo: James Coleman.

If you drove past Lake Ginninderra College last week and wondered on earth was going on, it’s okay – no one was actually hurt.

ACT Policing teamed up with ACT Ambulance, ACT Fire & Rescue and the ACT Education Directorate to hold a four-hour training event, designed to bring our emergency services personnel up to scratch on what to do if armed offenders ever stormed a school.

Commander Linda Champion talks us through it:

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Capital Retro11:15 am 20 Apr 23

If armed offenders stormed some schools in the ACT the attackers would come off second best.

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