Office of Emergency Management

Prepare

• Determine possible escape routes and locations of nearest building exits
• Review Your Response to an Active Shooter Brochure opens a new windowpublished by UCLA Police Department’s Crime Prevention Division
• View the UCLA Active Shooter Tutorial opens a new window.

Respond

• Utilize this standard practice to ensure you and your colleagues escape safely:
  • RUN - if it’s safe and you know where the shooter is
    • Getting away from the shooter or shooters is the top priority
    • Leave your belongings behind and get away
    • Help others escape, if possible, but evacuate regardless of whether others agree to follow
    • Warn and prevent individuals from entering an area where the active shooter may be
    • Call 911 when you are safe, and describe shooter, location and weapons
  • HIDE - in lockdown if you cannot run
    • Get out of the shooter’s view and stay very quiet
    • Silence all electronic devices and make sure they won’t vibrate
    • Lock and block doors, close blinds and turn off lights
  • FIGHT - with every means available if confronted by the shooter
    • Commit to your actions and act as aggressively as possible against the shooter
    • Be prepared to cause severe or lethal injury to the shooter
    • Throw items and improvise weapons to distract and disarm the shooter

Trapped with the Shooter

• Don't do anything to provoke them. If they are not shooting, do what they say and avoid sudden movements
• If possible, call 9-1-1. If you cannot speak with dispatch, leave the phone line open so the police can hear what is going on
• If they begin shooting, you need to make a choice: stay still/play dead, run for an exit while zigzagging, or attack the shooter
• When police officers arrive, keep your hands up and open and follow police instructions.

In and Office/Lab

• STAY THERE, lock the door and turn off the lights. Stay low and be quiet
• If the door has no lock and the door opens in, use a heavy door wedge. Otherwise, use heavy furniture to barricade the door. If the door has a window, cover it
• If the police have not arrived, move away from the incident, find safe cover positions (avoid parking lots) and wait for the police to arrive
• When police officers arrive, keep your hands up and open and follow police instructions.

In Hallways or Corridors

• Enter the closest room and barricade it
• Unless very close to an exit, do not run through a long hall to get to one; you may encounter the assailant
• When police officers arrive, keep your hands up and open and follow police instructions.

In Large Rooms/Auditoriums

• Stay there and barricade if possible. Turn off all lights, silence phone and remain quiet
• When police officers arrive, keep your hands up and open and follow police instructions.

Open Spaces

• Stay alert and look for appropriate cover locations
• Use hardcovers, such as brick walls, large trees, retaining walls, parked vehicles and any other object that may stop bullets
• When police officers arrive, keep your hands up and open and follow police instructions.