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.
The team ranked 12th out of 55 teams in the Hostage Rescue event, 10th out of 55 teams in the Assault Event and 6th out of 55 teams in the Officer Rescue event
Deputy Sarah Merriman, a Special Response Team operator with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, is seen during tactical training
Established in the early 1990s, the Dubai Police SWAT team hosts the UAE SWAT Challenge, a highly regarded event in the international law enforcement community
Authorities don’t believe that the child has been harmed, and the suspect agreed to giving the boy medical attention
SWAT, negotiators clustered at rural property; suspect reportedly holed up in underground bunker with 6-year-old hostage
The calls tie up resources ranging from dispatchers, patrol officers, helicopters, detectives and cyber-crime specialists
In a bid to beat the pranksters, top cops are now training officers to be more aware of ‘swatting’
After shooting new guns and seeing old friends at SHOT Show 2013 Media Day at the Range, attending the first-ever FLIR Systems night shoot was the perfect — albeit frigid cold — way to end our day
At least 15 officers responded to recent residence of reality TV personality’s family
A severed human head and two hands were hidden behind a kitchen cabinet, other parts were found in a storage locker
Colleagues remember the Lieutenant as a healthy, determined, and loving man
Three Los Angeles men are believed to be the gunmen who robbed the Nordstrom Rack store at a mall near the Los Angeles International Airport last week
The cause of death for a SWAT commander and training director is still under investigation
Police were seeking at least two men and also were trying to determine whether a car found abandoned was a getaway vehicle
Police said the armed man fired shots at officers Saturday from a second-story window before officers killed him
Each year, the department assigns thousands of extra patrols to the festivities — in ways seen and unseen — to control the crowd
Department has learned from past tragedies not to wait for SWAT to arrive
Suspect arrested after 17 hour standoff, shot and killed unarmed animal control
The AVATAR Micro robot from RoboteX is the newest member of the department’s SWAT unit
The beat cop is the backbone of our profession and the backbone of every law enforcement agency
Tactical Battle Swarming is a deliberately-structured, coordinated, strategic way to strike an adversary from all directions
Police say they responded with pepper spray after a few of the demonstrators used wooden shields to confront officers
What is the most important indicator of an individual’s potential for success on a team?
Smith said he remembers where the Chevrolet Caprice with New Jersey tags was parked
Over the past few weeks, SWAT teams have showed up to the homes of celebrities
McHenry County sheriff’s deputies fired shots at a man who pointed a gun at them as they served a warrant near Marengo today, but the man was not hit by the gunfire and was arrested after a short barricade situation
