Roseville High School’s focus on campus security increased this year with Catapult EMS and frequent practice drills, according to assistant principal Jason Wilson.

According to Wilson, RHS is looking to polish off school safety policies, starting with a dry run of the new communications system Catapult EMS.

“Right now we are transitioning to Catapult EMS as a way of communicating, notifying and taking account during emergency situations,” Wilson said.

According to sophomore Claire Townsend, during the test run of  Catapult EMS, her chemistry teacher couldn’t input anything into the server because it was clogged up from all the teachers logging in at once.

“It does have potential because something like that would be really easy for us all to do, but it has some errors-some bugs that need to get fixed,” Townsend said.

Sophomore Claudia Howenstein feels safer and less anxious knowing that there is a system to quickly alert teachers and administration where students were outside of the class.

“I think before the app was a google docs thing, which doesn’t sound very efficient at all,” Howenstein said.

The school also draws from Roseville Police Department’s “Run, Hide, Fight” procedure, according to Wilson. The procedure includes running from the intruder or area of warning, hiding in a safe place, then using any means of physical defense if necessary.

“I believe having been part of a real emergency on campus, students are gonna react on instinct so if you think about it, the Run, Hide, Fight pieces are instinctual things,” Wilson said. “I think it’s a really good structure, I like the approach… The piece I’m a little tentative about is the fight piece.”

Howenstein supports the Run, Hide, Fight procedure, but feels that, in real emergency, students and staff would already follow that, with or without policy.

“The whole Run, Hide, Fight procedure throws me through a loop,” Howenstein said. “I didn’t know that we weren’t allowed to do that before and it would make sense in an actual emergency.”

Social science teacher Mark Andreatta believes it will be efficient and helpful for teachers to get in touch with administration immediately in an emergency.

“There’s always speculation about what could and couldn’t be so this way there’s no miscommunication, we are trying to cut down on that,” Andreatta said. “It accelerates the dissemination of information instead of having to wait for an email.”