The Hamilton Police Department, in coordination with multiple local and regional agencies, will be conducting a full-scale school safety training exercise on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, from approximately 8 A.M. to 4 P.M. at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) property at 130 Essex St.
This is a pre-planned and scheduled training exercise and not a real emergency.
The training will involve police, fire, and emergency medical services personnel and is designed to test and improve coordinated response efforts during a critical incident. These types of exercises are essential to ensuring the safety and preparedness of our first responders and the wider community.
Residents should expect to see a significant presence of marked and unmarked police, fire, and EMS vehicles in the area surrounding the Seminary during the exercise. A secured perimeter will be established, and unauthorized public access to the immediate area will not be permitted during the training.
The Hamilton Police Department thanks the community for its cooperation and understanding as we work to enhance public safety and offers it’s thanks the GCTS for assisting with a location site for emergency response readiness training for our officers.
Questions should be directed to the Chief of the Hamilton Police Department.
CodeRed – Mobile Alerts and Notifications
The Town of Hamilton uses CodeRED to send EMERGENCY alerts by phone, email, text and social media to keep citizens informed of emergency situations. Emergencies such as an evacuation notices, utility outages, water main breaks, fire or floods, chemical spills or other emergencies. The Town may also activate CodeRED to send GENERAL notifications to communicate non-life safety matters. Examples may include planned road closures, water main repairs, water and power service interruptions and planned training events for emergency responders. Subscribers must select the box for GENERAL alerts. Sign up to receive emergency mobile alerts >>
The Hamilton PD will send a Code Red alert on Monday, September 15, 2025 (the day before) as a reminder.
