What does your town have? E.S.U. or S.W.A.T.

[sfb92]

I recently made a thread in ask-a-cop about window punches and seatbelt cutters, in my thread I mentioned e.s.u. (emergency services unit.) It got me wondering about what do most towns use for their emergency response teams.

Does your town use a s.w.a.t team, whether they call it s.w.a.t., e.r.t., s.r.t, whatever, or an e.s.u. team?

E.S.U. does high risk l.e. like a s.w.a.t. team, but also deals with rescues, auto accidents, and wild animals. For instance I see the NYPD ESU team is involved with the crane collapse and a few years back, if I remember correctly, they removed a tiger from an apartment. I offer the explanation because I've only really heard about e.s.u. teams in NY and NJ. BTW an NYPD officer could probally describe it much better.

Some notable ESU teams are the NYPD and the PAPD. If you're from the Northeast you may also know of Jersey City and Newark, they both have e.s.u. teams.

In my town they only have patrol and a detective bureau, but there is a county wide s.w.a.t team. My dad's dept. has an e.s.u. team.

I'm curious to see whether most towns use the traditional s.w.a.t. teams or use e.s.u. teams. Thanks for your replies.

[acreature]

High Risk Entry Team... no acronym is used. It's only letters.

[sfb92]

High Risk Entry Team... no acronym is used. It's only letters.

Judging from the name do they do only s.w.a.t. like work, and no rescue type work?

[kels]

nope, of course we dont have fast food places in gods county either.

IF it is that bad, we either borrow the next countys team or call KHPs team. Both are good people. KHP has better toys.

[Drummadude]

We have an emergency response team. To be honest, the team isn't needed more than very few times a year, so I don't know much about it.
If their services could be used in a special circumstance, I'm sure they'd do it even if it's not a normal SWAT thing.

[Hop]

It's an all hazzards team. They are trained on everything from high risk entry to large scale chemical spills. They are not a fire department, although we have 3 firemen and a ER Doctor that train with the team.

[Hockey9019]

We don't need no SWAT.

We have real rednecks here...

[Norm357]

All SWAT team members get take homes....

[Roger Dat]

Swat team here. Not much action for them but we have one.

[ChesCopPodz]

Swat

[smcc360]

My town has me. :cool::mad::cool:

[CACBAND]

My city (as far as I know) still uses a shared SWAT team with Pinal County, we also have a county-wide HazMat team (though it's fire based). The county team lost a member during training not long ago.

At work some sites have their own teams but we also have a regional Special Events Team (SET) and the Park Police has a SWAT team.
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[Group9]

What does your town have? E.S.U. or S.W.A.T.

Neither. My town only has sixteen officers, and the closest thing they have to a SWAT team is just a bunch of good ole boys with deer rifles and shotguns. :D

[CTUCop]

We don't have either. I suggested it once, but was shot down (no pun intended). That's when I suggested to Chief that if we couldn't have a ESU or SWAT team, perhaps he'd think about about a Fast Action Response Team. :p

As is typical of an average F.A.R.T., it initially received a few comments when it first broke and was then forgotten.

[mcsap]

QRT Quick Response Team. They are strictly a " SWAT " team.

But we have one of the fancy armored Dodge Trucks lefotover from the late 70's , early 80's USAF known as a Peacekeeper. We called them a " sleepkeeper".