Emergency Procedures: Bomb Threat
If you observe a suspicious object
- Do not handle the object
- Immediately clear the area and/or the building.
- When a Community Safety Officer arrives, follow their instructions.
If you receive a bomb threat by phone
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Note the telephone number on the caller I.D.
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Call community safety (extension 7533) immediately after you are disconnected, but first attempt to obtain as much information as possible and take notes if you can.
Ask the caller:
- When is the bomb going to explode?
- Where is it right now?
- What does it look like?
- What kind of bomb is it?
- What will cause it to explode?
- Did you place the bomb?
- Why?
- Who are you?
- Where are you?
Remember as much as you can about the voice
Would you call it . . .- male? female?
- calm? angry? excited?
- slow? rapid?
- soft? loud?
- laughing? crying?
- youthful? elderly?
- accented? slurred? nasal?
- stuttering? lisped?
- raspy? deep? breathy? cracking?
- disguised? familiar to you?
Try to note if there are background sounds such as:
- street noises
- machinery or vehicles
- animal noises
- music
- static or hollowness associated with cell or speaker phones
Try to note the exact words of the threat and the tone of the message. Is it . . .
- well-spoken?
- foul or vulgar?
- taped?
- in street talk?
- read from a script?