Safety & Security
The National Safety Security Protection Agency Presents…
THE UVALDE DEBRIEF “The Lessons Learned From The Lives Lost.”
Speaker: Thomas Czyz
Retired Homicide Detective and SWAT Team Operator
The Uvalde Debrief
The Uvalde Debrief helps law enforcement officers, school administrators, and architects learn from the deadly failures in Uvalde. A former student crashed a truck behind Robb Elementary School and then walked through an unsecured back door on May 24, 2022. He opened fire on his former 4th-grade classroom, killing 19 students, 2 teachers and injuring 17 others. The NSSPA’s team of retired federal and local investigators arrived on the scene the next day to determine what went wrong. In our two-month investigation, we found failures in training, physical hardware, technology, policies, and procedures. Not only will this course teach what went wrong in Uvalde, but what could have been done to prevent the attack in the first place. Correcting these same issues in other schools will not only save lives in the future but also honor the victims.
About Our Speaker
On December 14, 2012, our nation was devastated by the news that twenty first graders and six adults had been murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary. Having been a father, husband of an English teacher, active shooter expert, SWAT operator, and homicide detective at this point, Tom Czyz realized he couldn’t protect his own family.
He knew something needed to be done to protect America’s schools, so he founded Armoured One, a company that is dedicated to ending the story of active shooter. He put together the best active shooter experts he could find from SWAT, military special forces, federal agents, and schoolteachers to create a company that would save lives.
Since that time, Tom and his team of investigators have responded to more than 50 k-12 school shootings, including Sandy Hook, Parkland, Santa Fe, and Uvalde. His team produces debriefs from these investigations to educate school administrators, police, firefighters, EMS, architects, and politicians about how to survive an active shooter attack. In addition, Tom founded ONE Training, a non-profit that provides customized courses for varying school staff positions to empower them to save students’ lives. He achieved his greatest feat when one of the schools, Armoured One and ONE Training, helped, was attacked, but no one was killed or injured except the attacker. That was proof that proper training, notification, and hardening of products can save lives. Armoured One is now known as America’s School Active Shooter Company. Tom currently sits on the board for the National Safety Security Protection Association, a not for profit that helps states create minimal standards for security.
Tom is recognized nationally and internationally for his expertise in active shooter, school security and motivational speaking. His work has been featured by the Rolling Stones, Forbes Magazine, Netflix, Viewpoint, numerous local, national, international, and global news outlets. He has presented to government officials, and school associations for superintendents, school board members, facilities, and transportation. He has also collaborated with and trained local law enforcement and federal law enforcement. Tom has worked tirelessly for ten years to protect America’s schools from active shooter attacks. His work has been acknowledged by school leaders, government leaders, but more importantly the families of the lives he has helped save.