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<p>EXETER &#8212; The Wyoming Area School Board approved a &#8220;dynamic active shooter&#8221; training to be held in the Secondary Center this coming January.</p><p>The training, which will be done by Exeter Borough Sgt. Leonard Galli, along with four other certified trainers, will be a school shooting response training course for local law enforcement during a weekend in January. Galli, who owns and operates the Firearms Institute of Specialized Training in Exeter, asked the board to donate $1,500 &#8212; or half of the cost of materials &#8212; which the board approved.</p><p>The board will contribute $1,500 for the training, which is open to officers from the Wyoming Area School District Police Department, and member-municipality police departments in the district. Galli said the training will be limited to 25 officers and will be opened up to other departments if the class does not fill.</p><p>The offset of the cost, another $1,500, will come from the office of state Rep. Aaron Kauffer, R-Kingston, Galli said. The only cost for the training will be in the materials. All the instructors will be volunteering their time.</p><p>There will be one day of practicum and theory, with the following day featuring high-level scenarios.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be some high-intensity training,&#8221; Galli said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have time to wait anymore. The officers that respond to a situation are going in, and we need to get in there. This will train these officers to do that.&#8221;</p><p>The training, which will be held on Jan. 14 and Jan. 15, will take place inside the high school. Galli said, officers are now trained in active shooter situations to engage the shooter, instead of waiting out the shooter.</p><p>The sergeant said for every 15 seconds an average of one student is killed during a school active shooter situation.</p><p>&#8220;There will obviously other agencies responding if there is something catastrophic,&#8221; Galli said. &#8220;But we have to be ready to go in when we get there.&#8221;</p><p>The &#8220;intense training&#8221; will feature officers going through the halls of Wyoming Area Secondary Center using real firearms and acting out real situations. However, the rounds the officers will be using are less-than-lethal. The rounds, called UTMs (Ultimate Training Munitions), are marked paint and do not explode on contact, but just mark the target. The rounds are also much quieter, so participants do not have to wear glasses or ear plugs.</p><p>Galli said role players, such as students and other officers, will be helping out with the class as well.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Nick Wagner</p><p>nwagner@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Nick Wagner at 570-991-6406 or on Twitter @Dispatch_Nick</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Wyoming Area approves active shooter training in January