Active Shooter Survival Course

About activeshootersurvival

Ken Adair is a1972 graduate of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Division of Police Academy as well as the Kentucky Department of Justice Police Academy. Serving as a police officer for 11 years, Ken was the recipient of several awards. In 1975 he received the Professional Service Award and in 1979 he received the Professional Esteem Award from the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. He joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent in 1983. Upon leaving the Bureau, he returned to Lexington to become the Director of Public Safety of Transylvania University. In 1991 Ken was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by (CIKCU), the Council of 21 Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities. He became the founder and president of the first security committee and founded the first training academy for security personnel at the 21 Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities. He later became Director of Public Safety for the Sullivan University Systems, Lexington Campuses and has completed 16 years as a Director of Public Safety for educational institutions. During this time, Ken developed several programs, one which has received national attention as well as several other countries. One such program is “How to survive an active shooter in the classroom” and “Ballistic testing in the classroom” and is the foundation for this blog. The information learned has been requested by over 225 colleges and universities from Canada to Australia. As a professional police officer he was assigned as a training officer for new officers coming out of the academy. He was assigned to the extended merit step program for senior officers whom decided to stay on the street because of their experience. He assisted the Commonwealth Attorney’s office in their community relation programs designed to teach safety to the citizen’s of Lexington. During his association with the Commonwealth Attorney’s office he was sent to the University of Kentucky to take a forensic sculpture course (face finding: the rebuilding of a deceased person’s face for identification purposes). He was the first police officer in the nation to install a video camera into a police cruiser (circa 1978) for evidence collection. He has also completed professional training in Terrorism and Violence in the workplace, through the F.B.I. and Eastern Kentucky University. Ken received his Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and Fine Arts (double major) in 1980 from Eastern Kentucky University. In 1994, Ken returned to Eastern Kentucky University to work on a Bachelors of Education degree in teaching and in 2003 attended Sullivan University to study Computer Programming. Ken’s training and experience include areas such as Major Crime Investigations, Fatality Investigations (Northwestern University), Hostage Negotiations, Advanced Firearms Instructor, Penal Code, Traffic Law and Criminal Law. As a patrol officer on the street, he was involved in dispatched calls involving weapons, and found himself on the wrong end of a gun on several occasions. He has worked high profile cases involving murder and international drug trafficking, as well as everyday street crime. He credits quick thinking and staying calm for staying safe during his career as a law enforcement agent. During his 26 year career as a law enforcement agent, Ken has provided executive protection for then U.S. Vice-President George Bush Sr., U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Princess Margret and her entourage, Lou Dobbs of CNN, and a Russian Cosmonaut defector to name a few.