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North Little Rock police confirm no bomb threat on Shorter College campus

North Little Rock police have confirmed there is no threat to Shorter College after receiving calls of a potential bomb on campus.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — North Little Rock police investigated after authorities received a call about an alleged bomb that was found on the campus of Shorter College.

According to reports, officers quickly traveled to the campus to ensure the safety of the students and proceeded to evacuate the campus. 

Upon further investigation, authorities discovered that there was no "device" present on the campus.

"When we have threats like this, we take them as they're real no matter what. We will throw all of our resources to ensure the safety of the people on site as well as the people surrounding," said Lt. Amy Cooper with North Little Rock police.

During the investigation police closed all roads that are surrounding the college campus, as a search ensued by members of the North Little Rock Fire Department, Little Rock Fire Department Bomb Squad, and a bomb detecting K9 from North Little Rock

The roads have since been cleared and the area is now open.

Shorter College president, Jerome Green said it's always concerning when the safety of the campus is threatened, but this time they were prepared. 

This isn't the first time they received a bomb threat. 

Back in February, they along with two other of Little Rock's Historically Black College and Universities (HBCU), also had bomb threats on the same day.

Since then, they've prepared for this type of scenario.

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"We've been conducting training sessions. Mandatory training sessions for faculty, staff and students since this series of threats involving HBCU's," said Green. 

Police did not confirm that the initial call was related to the incident in February. 

Green said they have an emergency alert system in place called RAVE so that the campus can be alerted in real time via phone and or email. 

The new Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, Johnny D. Jones, said he's trained and prepared for those types of situations. 

"We have been trained by the FEMA institute in Maryland. So, we go through these type of exercises every year in terms of fire drills, bomb threats as well as live shooting drills with small exercises or full exercises," said Jones.

While they are well prepared, they also hope that situations like these no longer happen in the future.

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