Volunteers Needed For Active-Shooter Training At UWS

SUPERIOR, Wis. — Don’t be alarmed by the larger than usual police presence that will surround the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Holden Fine & Applied Arts Center later this week.

UWS Campus Police will undergo an active shooter training to ensure campus police know how to handle an active shooter threat.

The training will happen Wednesday, August 14, and Thursday, August 15, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Holden Fine & Applied Arts Center will be closed to the public on those days.

UWS University Police Chief Joe Eickman says that they are looking for 5 to 10 volunteers to help campus police with the training.

“The volunteers would be basically the students in the classroom should an incident happen,” said Eickman. “Myself and the other instructors will be able to guide them on what kind of a response for the certain scenarios that we have.”

Campus police would be seen holding bright orange training aids that appear as hand guns. Eickman says that the public should not worry and to stay away from the training area.

If interested in volunteering as an actor for UWS’s active shooter training, email Joe Eickman at jeickman@uwsuper.edu.