{"id":67886,"date":"2018-01-22T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=67886"},"modified":"2018-01-22T15:20:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T23:20:37","slug":"galaxy-macau-simulated-robbery-hostage-exercise-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/galaxy-macau-simulated-robbery-hostage-exercise-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Macau Simulated Robbery Hostage Exercise Planned to Prepare Law Enforcement for Better Crisis Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities will simulate an armed robbery and hostage situation at the Galaxy Macau on Tuesday night, hoping to minimize the chances of a tragedy like the one that hit Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017. That mass shooting claimed the lives of 58 people and left hundreds more injured, an event that nobody ever wants to see repeated.<\/p>\n

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Macau police will test their crisis response mechanisms through \u201cOperation Wolf Capture,\u201d with the goal of preventing the kind of carnage that occurred in the recent Vegas massacre were something similar to occur in the Asian gaming enclave. (Image: Macau Daily Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The casino will be closed to the public between 1am and 5am Tuesday morning, and a section of the street will also be cordoned off as police use the drill to assess the effectiveness of their crisis response mechanisms.<\/p>\n

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The operation will also measure the effectiveness of law enforcement information exchange, command and coordination, and scope of cooperation between police and other public entities, as well as the resort\u2019s own operator, Galaxy Entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The drill, code-named \u201cOperation Wolf Capture,\u201d will involve simulated injuries and the \u201csuspicion of explosives,\u201d Macau police said in an official statement about the impending event.<\/p>\n

Balancing Act<\/h2>\n

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock\u2019s massacre of concertgoers on the Las Vegas Strip, and the rampage of Resorts World Manila arsonist Jessie Javier Carlos just months before in the Philippines, forced the casino industry to confront the reality that their properties have become soft targets for mass murder and terror.<\/p>\n

Operators have tightened security protocols, but a dichotomy still exists between the welcoming open-door policy of casino resorts and idea of rigorously scrutinizing each visitor for any potential to do harm to others.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the Vegas shooting, Macau authorities announced they would conduct a series of terror attack drills in preparation for a similar emergency<\/a>, as well as establishing special action teams within casinos and installing metal detectors at all venue entrances.<\/p>\n

Still a Question Mark<\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, new details have emerged about Stephen Paddock\u2019s mental state<\/a>, which are painstakingly documented in a newly released 81-page Metro police report on the shooting.<\/p>\n

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in a press conference on Friday that investigators had \u201cgone over 2,000 leads and looked at 21,560 hours of video\u201d before compiling the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It reveals that Paddock was a \u201cgermophobe\u201d who had \u201cbecome distant\u201d to his girlfriend Marilou Danley in the year leading up to the shooting. The report also notes he had a \u201cstrong reaction to smells\u201d and his doctor felt he may have been suffering from a bipolar disorder, but Paddock refused to take antidepressants, although he did have a prescription for the anti-anxiety medication Valium.<\/p>\n

Those who knew him said he complained of feeling ill, tired, and in pain in recent months.<\/p>\n

He had lost a \u201csignificant amount of wealth\u201d between 2015 and the shooting, which had led to \u201cbouts of depression,\u201d although he paid off all his gambling debts shortly before he carried out the atrocity, the lengthy document also asserted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But an actual motive for the shooting of hundreds of complete strangers remains an unsolved mystery. Last week, Eric Paddock received his brother\u2019s ashes from the Clark County coroner\u2019s office. Before Stephen Paddock\u2019s cremation, a sample of brain tissue was sent to the Stanford University School of Medicine for a neuropathological examination in the hope that some clues might be evident, but researchers found nothing obvious that would have caused such mass violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities will simulate an armed robbery and hostage situation at the Galaxy Macau on Tuesday night, hoping to minimize the chances of a tragedy like the one that hit Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017. That mass shooting claimed the lives of 58 people and left hundreds more injured, an event that nobody ever wants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":67887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGalaxy Macau Simulated Robbery Hostage Exercise Planned<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Galaxy Macau will stage a hostage drill on Tuesday. 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