scholarly journals Correlation Between VİO2max and Anaerobic Power in Law Enforcement SWAT Team Members

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 280
Author(s):  
Shea B. Caddel ◽  
Matthew C. Jackson ◽  
Nicole C. Dabbs ◽  
Jason Ng
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Anaerobic Power ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Swat Team

The Role of Tactical Emergency Medical Support in Hostage and Crisis Negotiations

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 55-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Greenstone
Keyword(s):  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Medical Support ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Swat Team ◽  
Crisis Negotiations

AbstractThe use of tactical medics by members of hostage and crisis negotiations teams has not been examined in the literature or the field. Usually, negotiations teams are deployed within the confines of the established inner perimeter along with the tactical team and tactical medics. While the likelihood of injuries or performance degrading medical problems for negotiators is less than that expected for Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team members, they may occur and need attention. Additionally, there are other roles that tactical medical personnel can play that are specific to the needs of police negotiators. This article will examine these possible roles.

Fitness and Body Composition Characteristics of Special Weapons and Tactics Team Members of Law Enforcement

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (5S) ◽  
pp. 735-736
Author(s):  
Rafael A. Alamilla ◽  
Javier D. Romero ◽  
Kong Tu ◽  
Christina N. Cooper ◽  
Gary W. Berwick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Composition ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Composition Characteristics

scholarly journals Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (37) ◽  
pp. 9181-9186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Mummolo
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Officer Safety ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Local Police ◽  
Local Law ◽  
Swat Team

The increasingly visible presence of heavily armed police units in American communities has stoked widespread concern over the militarization of local law enforcement. Advocates claim militarized policing protects officers and deters violent crime, while critics allege these tactics are targeted at racial minorities and erode trust in law enforcement. Using a rare geocoded census of SWAT team deployments from Maryland, I show that militarized police units are more often deployed in communities with large shares of African American residents, even after controlling for local crime rates. Further, using nationwide panel data on local police militarization, I demonstrate that militarized policing fails to enhance officer safety or reduce local crime. Finally, using survey experiments—one of which includes a large oversample of African American respondents—I show that seeing militarized police in news reports may diminish police reputation in the mass public. In the case of militarized policing, the results suggest that the often-cited trade-off between public safety and civil liberties is a false choice.

An empirical examination of special operations team leaders’ and members’ leadership characteristics

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 438-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Josiah Arnatt ◽  
Michael M. Beyerlein
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Special Operations ◽  
Starting Point

Purpose – Law enforcement special operations teams (e.g. Special Weapons and Tactics Teams, Swift, HRT, and Strategic Response Teams) are charged with resolving difficult situations that pose a threat to all involved. Recent tragedies strengthen the idea that law enforcement special operations teams play a critical role in the maintenance of public safety. Despite the importance of police special operations teams, there is virtually no empirical research specifically addressing leadership within these teams. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – A review of literature was first conducted, identifying authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, and self-efficacy to deal with potentially life threatening situations as being core concepts underlying effective leadership in law enforcement special operations teams. The Authentic Leadership Questionnaire, Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, and the Crisis Leader Efficacy in Assessing and Deciding Scale were then administered to US local, state, and federal special operations team members and leaders (n=99). Results were analyzed according to formal team roles. Findings – Findings reveal members and leaders differ in regards to scale scores representing relational transparency, moral and ethical, sociability, and disaster self-efficacy. Originality/value – Much research on special operations teams is highly theoretical and does not seek to understand team leadership in a testable manner. This is especially true of the relationships between the formal roles of leaders and members. This study is the first to use established leadership instruments to assess the differences between team members and leaders. It provides a starting point for future research and reinforces the idea that there are identifiable differences between special operations teams and members.

scholarly journals Contested Discourses in Multidisciplinary Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs)

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie A. Moylan ◽  
Taryn Lindhorst ◽  
Emiko A. Tajima
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Rape Crisis Center ◽  
Sexual Assault Response Teams ◽  
Delivery Models ◽  
Rape Crisis

This qualitative study explored how law enforcement officers, forensic nurses, and rape crisis advocates who are members of coordinated service delivery models such as Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) describe their process of engaging with one another and managing their differences in professional orientation, statutory obligations, and power. Using semi-structured interviews with 24 SART responders including rape crisis center advocates, law enforcement, and medical personnel, we examined the ways that SART members discursively construct one another’s role in the team and how this process points to unresolved tensions that can manifest in conflict. The findings in this study indicate that interdisciplinary power was negotiated through discursive processes of establishing and questioning the relative authority of team members to dictate the work of the team, expertise in terms of knowledge and experience working in the field of rape response, and the credibility of one another as qualified experts who reliably act in victims’ and society’s best interests. Implications of these findings for understanding and preventing the emergence of conflict in SARTs are discussed.

The Role of Tactical Emergency Medical Support in Hostage and Crisis Negotiations

1998 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
James L. Greenstone
Keyword(s):  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Medical Support ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Swat Team ◽  
Crisis Negotiations

The use of tactical medics by members of hostage and crisis negotiations teams has not been examined in the literature or in the field. Usually, negotiations teams are deployed within the confines of the established inner perimeter along with the tactical team and tactical medics. While the likelihood of injuries or performance degrading medical problems for negotiators is less than that expected for SWAT team members, they may occur and need attention. Additionally, there are other roles that tactical medical personnel can play that are specific to the needs of police negotiators. This article will examine these possible roles.

Investigating Geospatial Holograms for Special Weapons and Tactics Teams

2009 ◽  
pp. 5-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Fuhrmann ◽  
Nevada J. Smith ◽  
Mark Holzbach ◽  
Terry Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Route Planning ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Usability Tests ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
Swat Team ◽  
Point Light ◽  
Initial Research

Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams rely heavily on collecting and applying geospatial intelligence. Traditional two-dimensional mapping products might limit or hinder successful operations by not showing important three-dimensional information of the terrain and its natural and/or human-built objects. Geospatial holograms are able to display these three dimensional spatial features to users without requiring special eyewear or using complex viewing technologies. A point light source is all that is required to make the imagery visible. Before introducing geospatial holograms into the SWAT domain, where lives are at potential risk, a series of usefulness, acceptance, and usability tests need to be performed. One of the key geospatial hologram design requirements identified for SWAT incidents was support for effective route planning and wayfinding. This paper will report about a first pilot study that investigated and compared wayfinding performance of SWAT teams using both traditional 2D imagery and geospatial holograms. Our initial research indicates that geospatial holograms could enhance SWAT operations, especially in multi-story environments. In the pilot study geospatial holograms were positively reviewed by SWAT team members and were described as a technology that should be further explored.

scholarly journals Peek or Push: An Examination of Two Types of Room Clearing Tactics for Active Shooter Event Response

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401987105
Author(s):  
J. Pete Blair ◽  
M. Hunter Martaindale ◽  
William L. Sandel
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Patrol Officer ◽  
Active Shooter ◽  
Patrol Officers ◽  
Response Options ◽  
Standard Training ◽  
Event Response ◽  
Swat Team ◽  
Modern Era

Prior to the modern era of active shooter events, the standard training for patrol officers responding to an ongoing shooting event required the responding patrol officer(s) to contain the shooter in the building where the attack was occurring, control access to the location, attempt to communicate with the shooter, and call the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team. Recently, research has been undertaken to empirically examine different law enforcement response options. This article details one such experiment. The article details a tactic known as the peek. Utilizing an experimental design, we present findings regarding the peek room entry technique.

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