Reuters

By Daniel Lovering

Nov 11 (Reuters) – A Massachusetts school has introduced a security system designed to alert authorities and administrators when shots are fired in the building, the first of its kind in the United States, according to the manufacturer.

The technology, adapted from a system in use by the U.S. military in war zones, is being marketed to schools and other public spaces across the country after a spate of deadly mass shootings.

Authorities in Methuen, about 30 miles north of Boston, demonstrated the Guardian Active Shooter Detection System on Tuesday, when the school was closed for the Veterans Day holiday, with a man firing blanks in the school’s hallways.

After the shots rang out, police coordinated a response over radios and an audience, which included Massachusetts Democratic representative Niki Tsongas and police chiefs from across the region, watched as circles pinpointing the shots appeared on a floor plan projected in the school’s auditorium.

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A Methuen, Massachusetts, school will become the first in the nation to deploy an automated system to detect and track a gunman on campus

A Methuen, Massachusetts, school will become the first in the nation to deploy an automated system to detect and track a gunman on campus.

City and school officials planned to attend a demonstration of the technology by Shooter Detection Systems, a Massachusetts-based company, on Tuesday afternoon at the undisclosed school.

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Posted: Nov 11, 2014 5:19 PMUpdated: Nov 12, 2014 5:13 AM

METHUEN, Mass. (WHDH) – Methuen police tested a new technology aimed at keeping students safe in the event of a school shooting.
The technology is the first of its kind as school shootings across the country have increased in recent years.
The state-of-the-art system installed in a Methuen school involved a system of sensors that can instantaneously alert police and administrators where shots are fired.
“As soon as a shot is fired, within a second, it’ll snap on my phone, tell me which school, the location of the shot. So they know immediately where to go,” said Superintendent Judith Scannell.
Active Shooter" System Drill

METHUEN, Mass. (AP) – With students off for the Veterans Day holiday, a simulated school shooting at Methuen grammar school Tuesday showed what “active shooter” technology could do to help police catch a gunman if the horrible threat ever strikes as it has at other schools across the country.

 

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Shooter Detection Systems has sensors that relay gunshot information to officials


Massachusetts school deploys ‘shooter detection system’

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 – 01:44

Police in Massachusetts respond to a simulated school shooting using wartime technology, which has just been introduced at a school in Massachusetts. Vanessa Johnston reports.