Bomb Threat

Checklist goes under your telephone in the office

Most bomb threats are received by phone. Bomb threats are serious until proven otherwise. Remain calm
and obtain information with the checklist below.

DO NOT:

 Use two-way radios or cellular phone; radio signals have the potential to detonate a bomb.
 Evacuate the building until police arrive and evaluate the threat.
 Activate the fire alarm.
 Touch or move a suspicious package.

Signs of a suspicious package:

No return address - Excessive postage - Stains - Strange odor - Strange sounds - Unexpected

If a bomb threat is received by phone:

1. Remain calm. Use checklist below. (You may want to print the checklist and place under your
telephone for easy access.
2. If your phone has a display, copy the number and/or letters on the window display.
3. The most crucial information you can obtain from the caller is detonation time, location, and
appearance of the bomb.
4. Don't hang up. Have someone call 911 from another phone. Give the phone number where the
bomb threat is received.

If a bomb threat is received by note:

 Call 911 immediately.

 Do not handle the note.

Person-to-Person or Direct Threat

1. Notify your security supervisor immediately.

2. Keep the person making the threat or indicating knowledge of a threat under surveillance until
relieved by your supervisor.
3. Take note of the age, height, weight, sex, color of eyes/hair/skin, clothing, and unusual
characteristics such as lameness, twitching or any peculiarities of the person under surveillance. 
Observe other personal behavior, if any.
4. If the person leaves the scene, take note of the make, model, color, plate number and markings
of the vehicle used.
 BOMB THREAT CHECKLIST
DATE: / / TIME RECEIVED: : AM/PM CONCLUDED: : AM/PM

 REMAIN CALM, BE COURTEOUS, LISTEN TO, AND DO NOT INTERRUPT THE CALLER
 GET ATTENTION OF ANOTHER PERSON - GIVE NOTE SAYING “CALL POLICE - BOMB THREAT” 9-911
 IF YOUR PHONE HAS CALLER ID DISPLAY, RECORD NUMBER OF INCOMING CALL __________________________
 WRITE DOWN EXACT WORDS OF THE CALLER AND THREAT
______________________________________________________________________________________

TRY TO KEEP THE CALLER ON THE PHONE AND TALKING BY ASKING THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. WHEN WILL IT EXPLODE? AT WHAT TIME?____________________________________

2. WHERE IS IT LOCATED? WHAT FLOOR? ROOM?________________________________
3. WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?_________________________________________________
4. WHAT KIND OF BOMB IS IT?________________________________________________
5. WHAT WILL SET IT OFF?___________________________________________________
6. WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?________________________________________________
7. WHO ARE YOU?__________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION OF CALLER (check all that apply)

Sex: Male______ Female______ Unknown______ Approximate Age______

Voice Speech Language Behavior Background Noises

 Clean  Accented  Educated  Agitated  Airport
 Distorted  Deliberate  Foreign  Angry  Animals
 Loud  Distinct  Foul  Blaming  Baby
 Muffled  Fast  Intelligent  Calm  Birds
 Nasal  Hesitant  Irrational  Fearful  General Noise
 Pitch-High  Lisp  Rational  Laughing  Guns Firing
 Pitch-Med  Slow  Slang  Nervous  Gymnasium
 Pitch-Low  Slurred  Uneducated  Righteous  Machinery
 Pleasant  Stuttered  Unintelligible  Other:  Music
 Raspy  If Accented,  If Foreign,  Party
 Smooth Describe: Describe:  Quiet
 Soft  Restaurant
 Squeaky  Talking
 Unclear  Tavern/Bar
 Other  Television
 Traffic
 Train
 Typing
 Water/Wind
 Other: