Why do police officers run towards gunfire?

Derrick McManus, former STAR Group officer and founder of Human Durability, speaking with podcast host Aleksandra King on The BEYOND Podcast. Derrick McManus says police officers move towards gunfire while the ordinary person runs from it, which he puts down to training and probably to personality as well.

Asked how anyone stays functional in the middle of a shooting, McManus widens the point beyond himself to police work as a whole, and puts the contrast in the plainest terms he can.

His answer sets his conduct under fire inside the training, and probably the temperament, of police officers in general. A practical sequel follows. With the shooter stopped, he rolls a couple of metres out of the line of fire rather than lose time standing up.