Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to 'run away' and 'hide'

[Maine CWP Training]

Border Patrol agents in Arizona are blasting their bosses for telling them, along with all other Department of Homeland Security employees, to run and hide if they encounter an "active shooter."

It's one thing to tell civilian employees to cower under a desk if a gunman starts spraying fire in a confined area, say members of Tucson Local 2544/National Border Patrol Council, but to give armed law enforcement professionals the same advice is downright insulting. The instructions from DHS come in the form of pamphlets and a mandatory computer tutorial.

Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to 'run away' and 'hide' from gunmen | Fox News

 

[Kaze 11]

Me thinks they are trying to avoid one of their Fast & Furious guns being used in another murder.

 

[JRau89]

DHS needs to go back through the course because it is clearly directed towards civilian personnel. I took it through the company I work for and even as armed security we were told to disregard the run and hide.

 

[CharlesMorrison]

Me thinks they are trying to avoid one of their Fast & Furious guns being used in another murder.

Wow! Too true it is! Ha ha

 

[Coopdog]

they used to tell the TSA the same thing. If somone becomes unrully and out of control, do not intervene, just be a good witness!!!! thats how to secure our homeland, run and hide and just be a good witness. disgraceful.