‘Crise’ on AWL

A terrorist in the walls of the university

During the first episode of Active Shooter, the services tested cooperation and consequence to a terrorist attack. The script assumed that a erstwhile soldier, armed with heavy-duty weapons, had entered the university. In the teaching building, he took hostages, started formulating demands, and threatened to kill the detainees. According to the procedures, the work officer sent an emergency unit to the site. Land Army Academy and reported the situation to the Military Police. The university besides set up a negotiator to talk to a terrorist. “Until the services arrived, our negotiator managed to release many hostages,” says the head of the exercise, the manager of the teaching staff, Dr. Norbert Świętochowski.

When the Military Gendarmery arrived, she took command of the action, as the emergency occurred on the premises of the military unit. However, the attacker refused to surrender, and the hazard of escalation of force against the hostages grew, so the police patrol requested support from police forces. "When it comes to acting in specified a situation, of course, the time of reaction is crucial. Therefore, the Military Gendarmerie, recognizing the hazard of escalation, alternatively of drawing increased forces from Żagana, turned to the Provincial Police office in Wrocław, and this 1 directed the counter-terrorism division to the place – explains the horseshoes. Paweł Nowicki from KWP in Wrocław.

Police counter-terrorists, before they went into action, became acquainted with the plans of the building, and a crisis staff was organized. In parallel, the police negotiator kept talking to the bomber. However, he refused to release the people he was holding and threatened to harm them, so the decision to storm was made. "In fact, very fewer specified situations end with counter-terrorism attacks. Here, we assumed for the script that it was necessary. Eventually, we managed to get the hostages out safely and halt the bomber. We are besides obliged to check all the another rooms in the building each time during specified action to guarantee that the terrorist acted alone – he explains the horseshoes. Nowicki.

The course of the full action was watched in the AWL cinema hall by civilian students in the direction of national safety and university subjects. Police officers described the individual actions and procedures they had followed, and explained how to behave if they were in a akin situation. This includes the alleged 4U procedure, which means "Be careful, run, hide, thwart the attack!". “Beware”—or pay attention to unnatural behaviors and events, “flee”—take refuge erstwhile the detonation occurs, hear arrows, etc., “hiddle”—so barricade yourself, hide yourself, mute the phone. “Destroy the attack!” is simply a last hotel – effort to fight the attacker erstwhile your life is at stake.

Fire and chemical hazard

In the following 2 episodes under the “Crisis ’26” on the AWL, firefighters, among others, moved to action. They had to put out a fire in 1 of the teaching buildings, where at the time of the fire there were respective 100 civilian students, podchodniks, and lecturers. – It was a very good and serious test for both us and the fire department. According to the drill scenario, a fire broke out in 1 of the largest academy buildings, while there were hundreds of people inside. Our mission was to evacuate these people until the fire department arrived. In turn, firefighters had to announcement immediately in the layout of this large object and find the origin of fire – described by Colonel Świętochowski.

Several firefighters took part in the fire extinguishing action, forming 4 PSP units. “The specificity of activities in specified large buildings requires us to check the full facility. Even though we have all evacuated, we apply the rule of limited trust and conduct rescue and firefighting operations in parallel with the search of the full facility for possible victims or prisoners, so it is time-consuming – explains Captain Damian Górka of the PSP Municipal Command in Wrocław.

The last episode of the “Krisy’26” exercise was devoted to the reaction and cooperation of the services in connection with the contamination of the site after the spill of toxic substances and to the necessity of decontamination of soldiers and paramedics who had been in contact with these measures. In addition to fire and military guards from the AWL, soldiers from the chemical branch of the 16th Lower Silesian Territorial Defence Brigade, the 5th Chemical Regiment from Tarnowskie Mountains and the Training Centre of Engineering and Chemical Forces in Wrocław took part. – Participation in specified exercises is simply a request and a necessity for us. Territorials are a service that frequently responds to threats in the civilian environment. This was at least during the flood in 2024, erstwhile under Operation Fenix We intensively conducted decontamination of the area, equipment and people. We have experience, but it is inactive worth improving cooperation and procedures with another services – emphasises the disease. Grzegorz Oling, commander of the chemical group in the command company of the 16th Lower Silesian Territorial Defence Brigade. During this episode of the Crisis, respective twelve soldiers had to be decontaminated and contaminated.

The exercises “Crises ’26”, together with the preceding technological conference, lasted 3 days. respective 100 soldiers and officers of various departments participated.