for the folks that were evacuated out of 197, the humphries building, they went over to our conference center. and based upon the events of a couple of years ago, we have counselors and our chaplains with them now providing the support that they need or desire. i d like to thank the mayor and the police chief and all the first responders for your quick response this morning. we ve learned a lot over the last couple of years. we ve exercised hard. we ll review this again to see what went right and what we can continue to improve upon in the future. chief? first, a call was placed from inside of building nav-sea command this morning at 7:29. that call once received for possible sound of gunshots was
chiefs and representatives of the fbi, ncis and other federal law enforcement agencies. in just about the same amount of time metropolitan police department officers and fbi agents were able to get into and take control of the command booth and access everything we needed in terms of cameras and stuff inside of the building. so having spent a lot of time doing the after action from the first incident, it appears that all the things that we tried to correct and make go better from the last incident went very, very well. very smoothly, well coordinated response here, and very happy that there is this turns out to be a great exercise for us to see we fixed what we wanted to fix and nobody is hurt and no evidence of any shots fired. so at this point we ll take any questions that you have that we can answer. [ inaudible ].
could have been in place do you think would have prevented you from falling into this? do you think there s a system that could have stopped? yes. i wrote my book called corruption officer. in the book i put detailed ways where they could slow down contraband from entering inside the building. officers are comfortable with the post they re working on. if we re working together, we come in tocchgether, familiar w one another. if we search that around the front entrance you re supposed to search officers just like civilians. if you switch people from one facility who don t know these officers and another supervisor who these officers are not familiar with one another, the officers tend to do his job essentially eliminate complacency that officers fall into. absolutely. there s a new superintendent at clinton, the superintendent was in place and many eothers.
fence just minutes before reports of gunshots? are you investigating that? is there this surveillance video. i am aware of that we have bull pulled all video. we have no concerns right now. admiral, can you talk about the active shooter drill, what you practice on a routine basis and how it worked this time? all of our commands practice active shooter drills. we simulate there an active shooter drill in the building and we train with our employees on how to respond. the first thing is to get out. if you can t, you barricade yourself and if you have to, you fight. we exercise that and we do that in a routine basis so our employees know what to do. there s no doubt in my mind that that made a difference this morning in the actions the employees did in the humphries building. what tells can you tell us about the person who called in the report about shots fired and is there any concern that they did it on purpose?
humphries building, they either went outside of the navy yard or went to the conference center and based upon the events of a couple years ago, we have counselors and our chaplains are with them now providing the support that they may need for desire. again, in closing, i d like to thank the mayor and the police chief and all the first responders for your quick response this morning. we ve learned a lot over the last couple years. we ve exercised hard. we re going to review this again to see what went right and what we can continue to improve upon to improve our procedures in the future. thank you very much. chief? just to give you a quick run down from what we know right now. first, a call was placed from inside of the building nav sea command around 7:29. it went to the internal call center inside of the navy yard. that call once received for a possible sound of gunshots was then immediately taken by the naval district of washington police and broadcast over