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When should Contact Team 2 move downrange in an active shooter response, and how do you do it without flooding the scene or risking blue‑on‑blue?

In this episode of the Active Shooter Incident Management Podcast, Bill Godfrey is joined by instructors Kevin Nichols and Kelly Boaz to answer a listener question about Contact Team 2. Drawing on more than 2,700 active shooter exercises, they explain why the old habit of waiting on tactical to “have time” to deploy Contact Team 2 was costing minutes, and how a simple trigger and self‑forming process gets the second team there faster without creating chaos.

They cover:

• The consistent problem they saw with Contact 2 waiting in staging for tactical to call them
• The updated trigger: when the next 2–4 officers should self‑form as Contact Team 2 and move with speed and purpose
• How Contact Two should check in: tactical first, then Contact 1, then dispatch if needed
• Practical link‑up and identification habits to avoid blue‑on‑blue
• Why “flooding the scene” with freelancing officers wastes time, clogs the warm zone, and endangers RTF operations
• Using the ASIM Checklist as built‑in redundancy when tactical is overwhelmed
• A simple roll‑call briefing you can use so every officer on your squad knows their Contact 2 role cold

If you’re a patrol supervisor, trainer, or command‑staff leader responsible for active shooter readiness, this is a useful episode to turn into a short roll‑call block, in‑service talk, or tabletop drill.

View this episode on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/IL0d5mCPAyM

Download the Active Shooter Incident Management Checklist & Help Guide at: https://ncier.org/asim/checklist to give your agency a single, validated playbook for contact teams, staging, CCPs, and Unified Command.

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