Long Beach school officers not supposed to shoot at moving cars except as ‘final means of defense,’ policy says

School information officers successful Long Beach are not expected to sprout astatine a moving conveyance oregon done a model of a conveyance unless the circumstances warrant it arsenic a “final means of defense,” the schoolhouse district’s use-of-force argumentation says.

The actions of a schoolhouse information serviceman were nether probe aft helium changeable and severely injured an 18-year-old woman successful a car connected Monday adjacent Millikan High School.

Long Beach constabulary were starring the investigation; schoolhouse information officers are not sworn constabulary and are not members of the Police Department. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office was besides investigating.

The incidental connected Monday was the archetypal shooting by an serviceman successful the Long Beach Unified School District’s 30-year school-safety program, Chris Eftychiou, an bureau spokesman, said connected Friday.

The schoolhouse territory was reviewing aggregate aspects of the incidental and cooperating with authorities, helium said.

The serviceman was hired by the Long Beach Unified School District connected Jan. 10, 2021, according to the district. The territory enactment him connected paid administrative leave, which was protocol pending an investigation.

Officers are lone allowed to usage their firearm successful situations that are successful self-defense, oregon defence of others to forestall decease oregon large bodily injury, according to the use-of-force policy. They are besides not allowed to occurrence informing shots oregon occurrence astatine a fleeing person, the argumentation says.

Before employment, schoolhouse information officers indispensable implicit a 664-hour Peace Officer Standards and Training basal academy, which includes firearms training, Eftychiou said.

Safety officers indispensable besides implicit 2 courses of firearms grooming per twelvemonth done the Long Beach Police Department’s academy. The serviceman progressive successful Monday’s incidental was up-to-date connected some of those courses, Eftychiou said.

“The officers besides person supplemental in-house grooming connected de-escalation, moving with adolescents, termination prevention/intervention and related topics,” helium said successful a statement.

They mostly assistance with perchance superior incidents connected oregon adjacent campuses, involving students oregon unit members, Eftychiou said. The information officers assigned to precocious schools are besides trained to respond to imaginable active-shooter incidents, helium said.

Officers supply their ain work firearm, which indispensable beryllium approved by a supervisor and selected from an approved list, the territory spokesperson said.

There are 9 full-time and 2 part-time schoolhouse information officers, successful summation to 4 supervisors, Efytchiou said.