A training session like this can’t hurt. It’s good to know what to do in an emergency.

WMUR reports.

Police hold active shooter training at University of New Hampshire

As mass shootings become more common in the United States, schools both across the country and in New Hampshire are training for a day they hope will never come.

The University of New Hampshire spent the last three days training for an active shooter scenario.

A team of officers from UNH and Durham moved in unison, searching for a solo shooter in the Memorial Union Building on the UNH campus.

“College and university police departments have been training for this for years, but we put a whole lot more emphasis on it in the recent years, when we’ve seen an uptick in violence on campus,” said UNH Police Chief Paul Dean.

While school is on break, a few students volunteered to help increase the stress and confusion for officers, who had to determine if the actors were innocent bystanders or dangerous and armed.

“I act as a scared student and definitely the [police] are trained to keep everyone calm and get them out and get to safety as fast as they can,” said Riley West, a student at New Hampshire Technical Institute.

The training is funded by the Department of Homeland Security, and it evolves each time a real-life mass shooting takes place.

“We review every single shooting that happens in the United States, or even across the country,” said Paul Dean. “We look at our plans, we look at how we would respond to those things and this is part of the planning process in our training.”