Multiple Law Enforcement Agencies Complete Active Assailant Mass Casualty and Reunification Exercise (25-086)

CLEARWATER - On July 30, 2025, multiple Pinellas County agencies participated in an Active Assailant Mass Casualty and Reunification Exercise. The exercise was held at Clearwater High School, located at 1951 Gulf to Bay Boulevard, and Plumb Elementary School, located at 1920 Lakeview Road in Clearwater.

The agencies who participated are below:

Law Enforcement

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office

Clearwater PD

Pinellas Park PD

Largo PD
Kenneth City PD

Treasure Island PD

St. Petersburg PD

Indian Shores PD

Pinellas County Schools Police

FD

Palm Harbor

Seminole

Clearwater

Treasure Island

Lealman

Oldsmar

Tarpon Springs

Pinellas Suncoast

Pinellas Park

St. Petersburg

Safety Harbor

Sunstar

Medical Examiners

The purpose of the exercise was to test and evaluate law enforcement's response to an active shooter, and test the procedures put in place to see what works and, more importantly, what doesn’t. This year we added our new Reunification Task Force to the exercise to see how it operates. It is our priority to continuously evaluate what we’re doing and how we’re doing to instill confidence in our community and keep the citizens of Pinellas County safe.

Sheriff Gualtieri says “we are doing something here in Pinellas County that I don’t know is being done to this magnitude any place else in Florida or any place else in the country. Every Police agency, Fire agency and EMS agency in the county trains together and that is very unique.”

We’d like to thank the Pinellas County School Board for allowing us to utilize two of their schools to make this exercise a success.

The entire press conference can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/lTGdsYzVlsg