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C3 Podcast: Active Shooter Incident Management

86 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings

This C3 Pathways Podcast series discusses Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM). The Podcast features instructors and special guests discussing key elements and challenges of Active Shooter Incident Management and the implications for law enforcement, fire, and EMS responders. The bad guy and the clock both kill innocent victims. Don't miss the opportunity to gain key insights that may help you save lives!

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Episodes

Ep 36: Intelligence

June 21, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MB

Episode 36: Intelligence A discussion about the Intelligence function in Active Shooter Incident Management (hint: it's not just a law enforcement issue). Bill Godfrey: Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management Podcast. My name's Bill Godfrey, your podcast host. Thanks for being with us today. We are going to be talking about intelligence related to active shooter events and active shooter incident management. I have with me today three of the C3 Pathways instructors. We've got St...

Ep 35: Rural Response in Active Shooter Events

June 14, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MB

Episode 35: Rural Response A discussion about how small and rural communities can respond and structure their response to active shooter events. Bill Godfrey: Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management Podcast. My name is Bill Godfrey, your host of the podcast and today's topic we are going to talk about active shooter response and active shooter incident management in smaller communities or rural communities where there's not a lot of resources. I've got with me today three of the...

Ep 34: Five Common Mistakes

June 07, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 46.6 MB

Episode 34: 5 Common Mistakes A discussion about five common mistakes in active shooter events response and active shooter incident management. Bill Godfrey: Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management Podcast, my name is Bill Godfrey, I'm your host of the podcast. Today's topic we are going to talk about five common mistakes in active shooter events response and active shooter incident management. I've got with me three of the instructors from C3 Pathways, Stephen Shaw from law enf...

Ep 33: Emergency Management

May 31, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 44.6 MB

Episode 33: Emergency Management A discussion about the role of emergency management and the emergency manager in active shooter events. Bill Godfrey: Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management podcast. My name is Bill Godfrey, I'm your host of the podcast. Today we're going to be talking about the role of emergency management and the emergency manager in active shooter events. Something that doesn't always get a lot of coverage, but certainly an important topic. We're glad to have...

Ep 32: Command Post vs. Tactical, Triage, and Transport

May 24, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutes - 40.9 MB

Episode 32: Command Post vs Tactical, Triage and Transport An important discussion on the fundamental difference between the work that gets done at the tactical, triage, and transport area versus the work that gets done at the command post. Bill Godfrey: Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management podcast. My name is Bill Godfrey, I'm the host of the podcast and I'm here today with three of the C3 Pathways instructors I got with me on the law enforcement side, Ron Otterbacher. Ron, ...

Ep 31: Zones

May 17, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 47.1 MB

Episode 31: Zones This episode is about Zones in Active Shooter Response and how they help us communicate the threat picture. Bill Godfrey: Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management podcast, my name is Bill Godfrey. I'm your host of the podcast. I've got with me three of the other instructors from C3 Pathways, Ron Otterbacher, retired from law enforcement. Ron, thanks for coming in, I know it's been a while since we've had you on the podcast. Ron Otterbacher: Thanks for having m...

Emotional Responsibility for Each Other

May 10, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 42.8 MB

 Contact information for Dr. Metz: Sara Metz, PsyD Public Safety Psychologist Code-4 Counseling Facebook (@code4counselingllc) Code-4 Counseling YouTube channel videos Episode 30: Emotional Responsibility for Each Other An important discussion on emotional responsibility for your fellow first responders. Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to our next podcast. Thanks for joining us. You're back with the Active Shooter Incident Management podcast series. Now a few weeks ago, we recorded a podcas...

Staying in Your Lane

May 03, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 50.3 MB

Episode 29: Staying in Your Lane A discussion about staying in your lane during active shooter events and what that means. Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to our next podcast. Today's topic, we're going to talk about staying in your lane for active shooter events and what that means. Thanks for joining us today. My name is Bill Godfrey. I'm the host of your podcast, one of the instructors here at C3 Pathways. I'm joined with us by three fabulous other instructors, Robert McMahan. Robert McMah...

Ep 28: Importance of the PIO

April 26, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 50.2 MB

Episode 28: Importance of the Public Information Officer A discussion about the Public Information Officer and why it is critical in Active Shooter Event Response Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to our next podcast. Today's topic, we are going to talk about the public information officer and the role of media and press briefings and social media, oh my, in an active shooter event. Thanks for joining us. My name is Bill Godfrey. I'm the host of the podcast. One of the instructors here at C3 Pat...

Ep 27: Emotionally Responsible Room Entry

April 18, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 44.1 MB

Episode 27: Emotionally Responsible Room Entry Room entry tactics are a delicate topic in law enforcement, but this discussion is about considering the impact of a full dynamic entry on children. You don't want to miss this! Bill Godfrey: Thank you for joining us on our next podcast. Today we are going to pick up on a topic that we briefly discussed a few weeks ago in the staging podcast. It was an odd place for it to come up, and we want to revisit that a little bit. My name is Bill Godf...

Ep 26: Communications

April 12, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 42.2 MB

Episode 26: Communications Dispatch, Radios, Face-to-Face, Chain of Command, and More Bill Godfrey: Hello, welcome back to the next installment of the podcast. Today, we are going to be talking about communications and we are going to be talking about all kinds of communications, radio communications, face to face, chain of command, who talks to whom and more. My name is Bill Godfrey, I'm the host of the podcast with me today are three of the instructors from C3 Pathways. We've got Mark R...

Ep 25: Staging

April 05, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MB

Episode 25: Staging Why Staging is so important in an Active Shooter Event, how it works, and how it can save you Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to our next podcast. Today's topic is going to be staging. That probably sounds a little boring to some of you, but it turns out it's pretty important to having a successful response to an active shooter event. My name is Bill Godfrey, your host for the podcast. I'm one of the instructors here at C3 Pathways. And I am joined by three of our other ins...

Ep 24: Rescue Task Force (RTF)

March 29, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutes - 41.6 MB

Episode 24: Rescue Task Force This show is all about Rescue Task Force (RTF), their role in an Active Shooter Event, key tasks the RTF needs to execute, and lessons learned. Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to our next podcast. Today we are going to follow our pattern of going back to the basics here. As the country starts to get kids back into school, we're going back to the basics of actor shooter incident management. Today we are going to talk about rescue task forces, and we're going to div...

Ep 23: Contact Teams

March 22, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes - 35.2 MB

Episode 23: Contact Teams A discussion of Contact Teams, the role of the first arriving law enforcement officers, and the professionalism required to shoulder the immense responsibility of responding to an Active Shooter Event. Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to the next installment of our podcast. Today, we are going to be revisiting a subject that we have not talked about in years on the podcast, and that's contact teams. Today I have with me, Billy Perry, a retired detective and EOD from Ja...

Ep 22: Complex Coordinated Attack (CCA)

March 15, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutes - 32.8 MB

Episode 22: Complex Coordinated Attack (CCA) A discussion of Complex Coordinated Attack (CCA), sometimes referred to as Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attack (CCTA). Bill Godfrey: Welcome back everybody to our next podcast. Today's subject, we are going to talk about Complex Coordinated Attack. Now, interestingly, the terminology means a little bit different depending on where you are or who you're talking to. Some people call it CCA, Complex Coordinated Attack. Sometimes it's referred to ...

Ep 21: SSAVEIM with John-Michael Keyes, Part 2

March 08, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes - 26.9 MB

Episode 21: School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management (SSAVEIM) John-Michael Keyes Interview - Part 2 Bill Godfrey: Okay. So I am going to tangent and take us to talking about our new course that we're doing together jointly with C3 and I Love U Guys Foundation, SSAVEIM, and that is School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management. I'm so excited that we're going to get this. You and I have been working on this for such a long time. It feels like an eternity, and we're finall...

Ep 20: Reunification with John-Michael Keyes, Part 1

March 01, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB

Episode 20: Standard Reunification Method John-Michael Keyes Interview - Part 1 Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to our next podcast. Today we've got a surprise for you. Our guest today is John Michael Keyes from the I Love You Guys Foundation. John Michael, thanks for being here today. John-Michael: Oh Bill, thanks for having me. Bill Godfrey: I'm so excited to be able to do this. You're our first official guest on the podcast, and I really couldn't think of anybody else I'd rather have to...

Ep 19: Back to Training

February 22, 2021 14:48 - 29 minutes - 31.2 MB

Episode 19 Back To Training: What's New and What You Can Do Now We're back with updates, what's new, and how you can get great training now! All: We're back! Bill Godfrey: Hi and welcome back to our next podcast installment. We have been silent for a little while. It's been a while since we've done our last podcast, but that's not because we haven't been ... We've been quite busy. We're not sitting around on our hands. And that's what we're going to talk about today, is just kind of cat...

Ep 18: #10 Overall, what are the gaps in our preparedness? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series

February 24, 2020 09:00 - 16 minutes - 18.9 MB

Episode 18 #10 Overall, what are the gaps in our preparedness? 10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief Series Question 10: "Overall, what are the gaps in our preparedness?" Bill Godfrey: Thank you for joining us and welcome back to the final instance of our podcast series that we've been doing, on 10 questions for the mayor or the city manager, county manager to ask their police and fire chiefs. Today we are going to be looking at kind of an overall summary, what are ...

Ep 17: #9 What is your comfort with our schools' plans? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series

February 17, 2020 09:00 - 15 minutes - 18.6 MB

Episode 17 #9 What is your comfort with schools' Violent Event and reunification plans? 10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief Series Question 9: "What is your comfort with our public and private schools' Violent Event procedures and offsite reunification plans?" Bill Godfrey: Welcome to our next podcast. We are continuing our series, 10 things for the mayor or the city manager, county manager to ask their police and fire chief together. Today, we're going to talk nu...

Ep 16: #8 What are you doing with community partners? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series

February 10, 2020 09:00 - 14 minutes - 17.7 MB

Episode 16 #8 What are you doing with community partners? 10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief Series Question 8: "What are you doing with community partners regarding Active Shooter Hostile events?" Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to our next podcast. We are continuing our series on 10 questions for the mayor, the city manager, the County manager to ask their police and fire chief together. Today we are covering topic number eight what are you doing with community part...

Ep 15: #7 How will Public Information be Managed? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series

January 31, 2020 21:52 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MB

Bill Godfrey: Hello, and welcome back to our continuing podcast series on ten questions that the mayor should ask the police chief or the fire chief together, or any elected official, city manager, county manager. My name is Bill Godfrey, I'm one of the instructors with C3 Pathways, a retired fire chief. With me today, I've got Don Tuten, he's chief with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office, over see's homeland security. Don, thanks for joining us today. We also have Ron Otterbacher. Ron is a ...

Ep 14: #6 What joint exercises have you done? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series

January 31, 2020 19:13 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MB

Episode 14 #6 What joint exercises have you done and what is planned? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series 10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief Series Question 6: "What joint exercises have you done and what is planned?" Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to the next in our podcast series. We are in the middle of our mini-series, talking about 10 questions that the mayor or city manager, County administrator want to ask their police and fire chiefs together to kind of he...

Ep 13: #5 What joint training have you done? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series

November 11, 2019 11:00 - 12 minutes - 15.7 MB

Episode 13 #5 What joint training have you done and what is planned? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series 10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief Series Question 5: "What joint training have you done and what is planned?" Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to our podcast series. This is the next installment. We are currently on a mini-series here, talking about 10 questions that the Mayor or City Manager should be asking their police chief and fire chief together. Today, we...

Ep 12: #4 How does each Discipline use ICS? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series

November 04, 2019 20:01 - 14 minutes - 17.1 MB

Episode 12: #4 How does each agency use ICS jointly and individually on a routine basis? - "Questions from the Mayor" Series 10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief Series Question 4: "How does each discipline (i.e. law enforcement, fire, EMS) use ICS individually and jointly on a routine basis (i.e. regular calls)?" Bill Godfrey: Welcome back to our next podcast. In this series, we're in the middle of talking about the 10 questions that the mayor or city manager shou...

Ep 11: #3 How does our Policy Fit with Mutual Aid? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series

October 18, 2019 17:16 - 15 minutes - 18.7 MB

Episode 11: #3 How does our Policy Fit with Mutual Aid? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series 10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief Series Question 3: "How does our joint response policy fit with our mutual aid partners’ response policies?"   Bill Godfrey:  Welcome to our next podcast installment. We are in the middle of our mini series about the tem questions a mayor, city manager, county administrator, can ask their police and fire chiefs together to try to help...

Ep 10: #2 What is our Joint ICS Structure? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series

October 13, 2019 19:57 - 10 minutes - 13.7 MB

Episode 10: #2 What is our Joint ICS structure? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series 10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief Series Question 2: "What is the integrated Incident Command System (ICS) structure (i.e. org chart) that you’ve developed as part of the joint response policy?"   Bill Godfrey:  Welcome to our next installment in our podcast series. We are doing a mini-series here for mayors, city managers, county administrators called Ten Questions to Ask Yo...

Ep 09: #1 Show me our joint Active Shooter Response policy - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series

September 28, 2019 20:45 - 13 minutes - 16.9 MB

Show Transcript: Episode 09: #1 Show me our joint Active Shooter Response policy - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series 10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief Series Question 1:"Chiefs, please show and review with me our joint Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response policy." *Bill Godfrey: * Welcome to our next installment in our podcast series. This time we're going to be doing something a little different. We're actually going to be kicking off the beginning of a mi...

Episode 08: Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)

September 10, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes - 26.5 MB

Episode 08: Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) Discussion of IEDs - Improvised Explosive Devices (aka bombs) in Active Shooter Events. <strong>Bill Godfrey: </strong> Welcome to this next discussion in ongoing podcast series talking about active shooter incident management. Today, we are going to be talking about the impact of improvised explosive devices in the presence of active shooter events. <br /> I have with us today to join the conversation Billy Perry, retired detective a...

Episode 07: Tactical Training for Leadership

August 27, 2018 04:00 - 32 minutes - 30.9 MB

Episode 07: Tactical Training for Leaders Discussion of leadership engagement, tactical training for leaders, and leadership modeling. <strong>Bill Godfrey: </strong> Hello, and welcome to our next installment of our podcast series on active shooter incident management training. My name is Bill Godfrey, a retired fire chief, and one of the instructors for C3 Pathways. I'm your host today, and with me is Michelle Cook, also one of our instructors but recently retired...

Episode 06: What Makes Managing an Active Shooter Event Different?

July 16, 2018 13:00 - 21 minutes - 23.7 MB

Episode 06: What Makes Managing an Active Shooter Event Different? Discussion of what makes managing Active Shooter Events different from other types of incidents Bill Godfrey: Hello, and welcome to the discussion this afternoon. Today we are going to talk about what makes managing active shooter events different from all of the other types of incidents that responders go to. Today, we have with us Adam Pendley, assistant chief with Jacksonville sheriff's office, Travis Cox, lieutenan...

Episode 02: The 5th Man (Tactical)

July 02, 2018 14:00 - 21 minutes - 20.6 MB

Episode 02: The 5th Man (Tactical) Discussion of the 5th Man (also known as the Tactical Group Supervisor) in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Bill Godfrey: Hello, Bill Godfrey here from C3 Pathways, we're here today to talk a little bit about fifth man and the tactical position, a key position, in the management of an active shooter event, certainly on the law enforcement side, but really, for the entire event. And I have with me today, to talk about it, Steve Shaw, sergeant ...

Episode 05: Casualty Collection Point and Ambulance Exchange Point

July 02, 2018 14:00 - 27 minutes - 25.8 MB

Episode 05: Casualty Collection Point and Ambulance Exchange Point Discussion of Casualty Collection Points (CCP) and Ambulance Exchange Point (AEP) in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Bill Godfrey: Hello, and welcome to this next installment of talking about some of the challenges that we see on active shooter incidents. Today we are going to talk about Casualty Collection Points. My name is Bill Godfrey, a retired Fire Chief and one of the instructors at C3 Pathways. I have w...

Episode 04: Command Post Integration

July 02, 2018 14:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MB

Episode 04: Command Post Integration Discussion of Command Post integration in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Bill Godfrey: Hello, and welcome to our next installment of talking about active shooter events. My name is Bill Godfrey from C3 Pathways. And today's segment we are going to talk about integration in the Command Post. How do you bring law enforcement, fire EMS together and how do you make that work. And then, some of the common problems that we see. I mean, in a ...

Episode 03: Triage and Transport

July 02, 2018 14:00 - 19 minutes - 18.8 MB

Episode 03: Triage and Transport Discussion of the Triage and Transport Group Supervisor positions in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Bill Godfrey: Hello again, everybody. Bill Godfrey from C3 Pathways, here with a number of the instructors to talk about triage and transport and the challenges of integrating our medical roles in an active shooter event. Today I've got with me retired fire chief Tom Billington, both fire chief and paramedic. Another retired fire chief, Mark...

Episode 01: Common Misconceptions

July 02, 2018 13:00 - 17 minutes - 16.9 MB

Episode 01: Common Misconceptions Discussion of common misconceptions in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Bill Godfrey: Welcome to our discussion of active shooter incident management. Today, we've got with us Stephen Shaw, sergeant from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Adam Pendley, assistant chief with Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Mark Rhame, retired fire chief from Deltona, Florida and Orange County, Florida. And Joe Ferrara, also retired fire chief from Martin County, Flor...