Loveland residents may notice extra police presence outside the Pulliam Community Building, 545 Cleveland Ave., over the next couple of days, but it’s not because of a known threat — the Outdoor Channel is filming an episode of “The Best Defense.”

From the show’s website: “The Best Defense is an exciting new show that teaches self defense through knowledge, preparation and awareness for men and women alike. The show features defense methods that involve firearms, unarmed defensive situations and self-defense product reviews. Every episode includes practical tips and techniques for self defense.”

The event started Thursday, but most activity will take place Friday and Saturday, organizers say.

The event was initially planned for last month, but a weekend of bad weather delayed it.

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City Planning Commission member Buddy Meyers helped coordinate the show’s recording in Loveland, having already participated in recording at his own home.

Meyers is the co-owner of Tall Guns LLC and met executive producer of the show Michael Bane through his work.

He said because of his work, Meyers understands the importance of knowing tactics of self-defense and how best to protect oneself in unsafe situations, even if it means how to avoid hurting him or herself.

The mock scenario at the Pulliam will involve three terrorist active shooters, one whom will be wearing an explosive vest at a “patriotic event” at a theater, according to organizers.

“What we realized is that we know stuff that everybody should know but don’t,” Bane said.

While Bane said he can’t stop terrorism, “if we can transmit information that can keep people alive in that room in the worst possible place you can be,” then the show would have fulfilled its purpose.

“The format of the series is to create a simulation of a crime in multiple versions, then over the course of 30 minutes, dissect the event. Our first focus is always on awareness and avoidance — the best ‘solution’ to a sim is that it doesn’t happen to you! If the solution is a fighting solution, we focus on techniques and what we call “training in context,’ how you can practice those techniques at home,” Bane wrote in a memo.

Although Meyers said he invited local law enforcement to participate in the event as a sort of training, officials from the Loveland Police Department declined — they host and participate in their own organized active shooter trainings.

The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office listed the event when it was first supposed to take place last month for its SWAT officers as an “off duty” event, but it wouldn’t be considered training, according to Sheriff Justin Smith.

There will also be hired security outside the building.

Bane said real police response won’t receive air time, though there will be paid actors and volunteer extras participating.

And although one of the mock terrorists chosen is of Lebanese descent, as is often a complaint of stereotyping from Americans of Arab descent, Bane said the actor volunteered, and the show tries to keep the role players “generic.”

“The terrorists, from my point, were less important than what happens to the people in the room,” Bane said.

The main point of the show, he said, how the people at the event respond to the scenario.

Bane said the recording is for an outdoor special to air this summer, and is “a more ambitious project than we’ve attempted, than most people have attempted.”

For more on the show, go to http://outdoorchannel.com/the-best-defense.

Saja Hindi: 970-669-5050 ext. 521, hindis@reporter-herald.com, twitter.com/SajaHindiRH