New York will become the first city in the nation to directly link public schools to the 911 system, part of a new pilot program officials say will speed up emergency response times in the event of an active shooter or other weapon-related threat.

Mayor Eric Adams announced the initiative Monday at Spring Creek Community School in Brooklyn, the first school campus to install the system.

The Emergency Alert System — developed by the city’s Office of Technology and Innovation — allows schools to instantly contact 911 through fixed buttons and wireless lanyards.

Alerts sent through the system bypass the usual 911 call flow, getting routed straight to real-time dispatch and initiating a response in under 10 seconds, Adams said.

“In an ideal world, it’s hard to believe that we would have to

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