SWAT
The SWAT topic page gives tactical officers and police officers who want to join the ranks of these elite special units a wide variety of news, tips, columns and commentary to achieve the objective.
Although teamwork is a natural element of publicsafety, it’s easy for leaders to become complacent and fail to pay sufficient attention to team dynamics
The truck is built on a Ford F59 chassis and features extreme duty storage compartments, weapons cabinet and more
Although Det. Marcela Lopez didn’t try out to break barriers for women, neither is she shrinking from it
Agent, who was previously arrested for a domestic violence incident, is accused of shooting a man in the head and attempting to shoot his wife Tuesday
As police SWAT teams evolved in the 1970s, they added skilled negotiators and long-distance precision shooters to enhance their life-saving capabilities
Man fired on firefighters and law enforcement before killing himself
Judge has dismissed the last charge against an officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a raid in 2010 that was recorded by a reality TV crew
The final charge is expected to be dismissed against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old during a raid that was filmed by a reality TV show
These radar detectors use radio waves to determine if someone is inside a home and whether they are moving
Security forces killed two terror suspects in a fierce shootout Thursday and arrested another, foiling a major attack against police buildings
Agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and a local prosecutor are conducting a criminal probe
City mayor called standoff with man who planned to kill cops among ‘most intense’ in U.S.
Officers fatally shot James Boyd, who was holding two knives, during an hourslong standoff in March
George Pickering has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Earlier reports from authorities said Pickering did not have a gun
Terrorists linked to each other seized hostages at two locations around Paris on Friday, facing off against police
Standoff began after suspects made a phone call to police while inside a home “threatening law enforcement”
SWAT teams backed by helicopters tracked two heavily armed brothers with al-Qaida sympathies suspected in the newsroom massacre of a satirical French weekly
Revealed Wednesday that a doctor was killed in a shooting at a veterans’ clinic, as agents interviewed hundreds of potential witnesses to determine a motive
A gunman opened fire at a veterans’ medical clinic in West Texas on Tuesday, killing one other person
The man was wanted for a felony domestic violence warrant and threatened to kill himself with a knife
The robot features a specially-outfitted arm capable of opening doors and moving objects, plus it can climb stairs and roll over obstacles
Highway sign dedicated to four Oakland police officers killed in 2009 was ripped from its post on Interstate 580 and tagged with a red “X”
Designed to deploy quickly and easily over soft body armor and/or uniforms, the plates are lightweight, low-profile
Highest-ranking Chicago cop to be shot in the line of duty in years returned this week to his post in South Side’s Englewood police district
Bradley Stone had an ax, a machete and two prescription pill bottles beside him when he was found dead Tuesday in the woods after killing 6
Leaders demanded to know how a man with a violent criminal history slipped through the cracks and ended up in a cafe where he took 17 hostages
Man suspected of killing his ex-wife and five of her relatives was found dead in the woods Tuesday after a day-and-a-half manhunt
Swarm of heavily armed police stormed a cafe in the heart of Sydney early Tuesday, ending a siege by an Iranian-born gunman
Man killed 6 people and seriously wounded another in 3 different homes and remained at large hours after the shootings