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• 21 steps to becoming a better SWAT team leader

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  Your self-improvement efforts should not start when you take a formal leadership position on SWAT – your efforts should start even before you make the team

• The 3 components of effective tactical team leadership

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  From balancing budgets to ensuring officers train on the latest tactical concepts, good leadership occurs before, during and after the call

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  An in-depth look at one PD's journey to find a new class of officers ready to serve the communities of San Diego

• Rapid Response: 7 key takeaways from the New Zealand mosque attacks

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  The rapid movement of the killer from one scene to the next made the attacks incredibly disorienting and highly complicated the police response

• Fla. measure would arm paramedics for ‘high-risk’ operations

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  The bill would require paramedics to obtain a concealed-weapons license and to complete LE-established training and deployment practices

• What the surge in swatting calls means for police

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  So-called "swatting" calls have been fatal on all too many occasions

• 8 things for leaders to consider when scouting for SWAT members

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  SWAT is a specialized unit and those selected to be members of that unit should be special people who possess extraordinary skills and abilities

• Police in standoff with armed man barricaded inside Calif. Denny's

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  Shortly after noon, more than six hours after the standoff began, police set off a flash-bang device outside the restaurant

• Milwaukee LEO fatally shot executing search warrant

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  The officer is the third to be killed in the line of duty in Milwaukee over the past eight months

• SWAT firearms qualification training: Why quality over quantity counts

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  A day of sniper training can have a round count barely reaching double digits, where every shot is an opportunity to learn and gain valuable information

• Why police departments don’t buy the right body armor

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  When dealing with safety-related gear like body armor, the wrong purchase could be deadly for cops in the field

• 2 female victims unharmed after UPS hostage situation in NJ

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  Police say the suspect was apparently shot and injured, but the women were unharmed

• The one question every SWAT team needs to ask

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• Officials fund mental health program for Pulse massacre first responders

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  The program is intended to teach first responders how to care for themselves after crisis events and recognize peers who may have PTSD

• How to spec out an EOD response truck

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  An explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) response truck is a critically important addition to a modern police department

• Event security by the numbers: How a deployment matrix can help SWAT

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  We might want SWAT at every public venue, but we just don’t have the money and resources to do it

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