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.
What would you have done differently to have better results if you had received the call to arrest the Dillinger Gang?
The American Sniper Association has produced a defining resource designed to assist SWAT teams in structuring training, buying equipment and planning deployments
As an LAPD SWAT team leader and crisis negotiator, Jonathan explains how crisis negotiation skills help officers in tactical situations and everyday patrol
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
Website spurred controversy over mission statement that reported agency was established in 1963 out of a fear and distrust of civil rights advocates
Man fired a rifle at his neighbor and then held police at bay for several hours inside his home before he was arrested
Gunman attempted to set the Mexican Consulate ablaze and fired more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings Friday
The firefighter came out of his house with two guns pointed at officers threatening to kill himself and his sister
Armed suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of a cop was killed in a 2013 standoff captured on helmet camera
The SWAT unit has to keep up with ever changing technology, but has a strained budget
29-year-old Devin Rogers surrendered shortly after 4:45 p.m. Monday after holding a man and a woman hostage
