School employees train for emergency situations

Before returning to school, all Havre Public School employees learned new safety protocols meant to help handle armed intruders, bomb threats and other similar possible dangers.

School resource Officer Josh Holt of the Havre Police Department gave the same Standard Response Protocol presentations three times Monday and Tuesday, just in time for the first day of school today.

A bulk of the presentation concentrated on the differences between lockout and lockdown and what to do in case of each one.

A lockout means the threat is outside, Holt said, supplementing many of his points with a PowerPoi...