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.
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Sgt. Justin Dodge, whose left leg was amputated below the knee after the fire truck rolled over it, is the only amputee officer on the city’s 1,500-member force
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John Chiaramonte, MCP’s consulting president, leads virtual meeting of public-safety experts to strategize how to combat dangerous and wasteful practice of placing fake 911 calls to elicit an emergency response
It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion, but it happened during a training with the Orange County sheriff’s bomb squad
The team obtained a search warrant based on “Find my iphone” pings that a victim in a theft case provided; the woman whose home was searched was not found to be involved in the theft
The suspect fired several shots during a domestic disturbance before officers arrived at the scene, 911 call audio shows
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New technology could provide vital information during breaching operations, trafficking searches, or hostage situations
“We need more armor. Do we have a fire truck? We need a firetruck or something parked out in front of this house, we’re all pinned down,” an officer radios
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SWAT Officer Jesse Noriega’s shot grazed the suspect’s head, neutralizing the threat to officers; the suspect was treated at the hospital
“It was a chaotic scene,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said. “We applied all technology — that’s the robodog, our SWAT team, electronic, surveillance [and] drones”
The COPS Office and NPI held meetings with law enforcement leaders and civil rights organizations to aid in the research process
Sgt. Marc McIntyre had been with the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office since 2015 and was a military veteran who served in Iraq
The driver had ignored instructions to exit the vehicle for hours and continued to rev the disabled truck’s engines in an attempt to flee
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Avoiding using confidence as a decision-making tool
"[The suspect’s] objectives were to get into a shootout with law enforcement, kill law enforcement and be killed by law enforcement,” Chief Scott Vermillion said
As long as suspects hide or circumstances warrant no-knock actions, there will be property damage
Lessons learned from the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting helped authorities to work “seamlessly” in reacting to the UNLV attack, LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill said
“Stealing is not OK. These people just go out and steal, not because they’re in need, because they can and they won’t get in trouble,” Sheriff Jim Cooper said
Officer Jorge Pastore succumbed to gunshot wounds he sustained when he entered the home with the SWAT team
The officer who was killed was a member of the SWAT team and the wounded officer was going into surgery
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