We all need these gunfire drills

Dear Editor,

This concept of having drills in schools located where there are frequent flare-ups of gunfire among warring factions and intervening security forces attempting to maintain law and order is essential to save lives and minimise collateral damage.

Always remember, crawl to safety in the face of active gunfire. If inside your house, the routine includes getting off the bed to the floor, staying away from openings, and crawling under a bed if your size allows, and stay behind solid walls for cover if available and time and space allows. These principles saved me from harm downtown earlier this year. Eight others running to safety, or who were upright, were not so lucky; only lucky that no one died from their injuries.

Shoppers and all people in downtown Kingston, May Pen, Montego Bay, Spanish Town and elsewhere in Jamaica need some of these drills. Who is going to prepare the Jamaica Survival Handbook? Will you, Sir Commissioner, the JDF, or the police? At least there is opportunity within such a crisis.

Michael Spence

Liguanea PO

Kingston 6

micspen2@hotmail.com

 

We all need these gunfire drills

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