Training with Simulated Weapons

Posted by Ted Pickerill, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

​We are still working through the formalization of our policy.  This is the current practice:

• The unit informs the University Police department of the planned training day and location.
• The unit informs the location’s “owner” of the planned training day and time. For example, our Unit trains at Millett Hall, which is also our basketball arena, so our Unit informs athletics.
• If the training is not at the Unit’s office building, the simulated weapons are transported to the training location by a staff member in a van, and are all collected at training’s end for transport back in a van. Our students do not individually carry the simulated weapons to the training site.