OHIO– Every year ten thousand officers across Ohio are trained before they hit the streets on how to respond to mass shootings. While they can never adequately prepare for each situation, we're learning that their training goes beyond the classroom and fieldwork. 

• Officers receive 728 hours of training through the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy
• Learning how to respond to external situations are just as important as learning how to respond to one's internal reactions
• The quick response of Dayton Police and training saved hundreds of lives 

No one imagined more than 200 rounds of ammunition would leave ten people dead and 37 people hospitalized, after a night on the town in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost says their police officer training and being in position made the difference. "They engaged within 24 seconds of the beginning of this incident." "They were able to do it because they had been deployed. They were in the right place because they recognized the risks, and because of their training, they knew what to do."

While Yost couldn't go into specific details as to how officers handle shooters with high powered weapons, he said the hours of training, which includes knowing what's in their line of sight, is only part of the battle.

"It's not just enough to see the bad guy and be able to fire your weapon accurately. You've gotta know what's behind and around the bad guy because if you miss, if he moves if the bullet goes somewhere else, you can't be hitting other people."

Last year, over 25 hundred officers in Ohio went through tactical response training; but training officers get for real-time situations isn't just based on external situations. It's so much more. "It goes everything from what's going on inside the officer, the body's reaction to stress, how tunnel vision happens, and how to control those kinds of reactions." Being able to control one's reactions, while calculating everything else going on around them is what helps to save lives.

Attorney General Yost says if it wasn't for the quick response and training of Dayton Police, hundreds more could have been lost.  Officers in Ohio must go through 728 hours of basic training before they get assigned to a department or agency. Even after they receive a peace officer's training certificate, they have to go through 40 hours of training to maintain their license. Part of their training also includes learning strategies to avoid getting ambushed.