2020-09-02 City Council Item No. 12.2 Menifee Police Department Southwest Cities SWAT Presentation Regular MEETING - Additional Meeting MaterialsMenifee Police Department
Southwest Cities SWAT
•Discussion of RSO SWAT activity in Menifee
•RSO leadership detailed prior critical incidents over the past few years
•February 2020 –Critical incident response by RSO
•Highlighted CNT/Tactical rapid response needs
•Current officers have SWAT experience
•Development of officers within the department
•Two critical incidents within the first few weeks of Menifee PD go-live
Menifee Police SWAT needs
•SWAT capabilities & immediate benefits
•Planned Operations
•Warrant services
•Large scale public events
•Critical incident response
•Active shooter
•Barricaded suspects
•Disaster response
•Floods
•Search & Rescue
Why a joint SWAT team?
•Geographical location allows for great partnership
between Hemet, Murrieta, & Menifee PDs
•Resource sharing between the three departments,
with training & development opportunities for our
personnel
•K-9
•Crisis Negotiation
•Blood hounds
•Tactical Medical personnel
Why a joint SWAT team?
Experienced SWAT team
•1998-Hemet & Murrieta Police Departments
merged to create multi-agency SWAT team
and immediately benefit from partnership
•Share equipment & Personnel
•Improve Effectiveness & Service
•Established experience & professionalism
•Long standing partnership with RSO SWAT
•Menifee, Hemet, & Murrieta PD leadership agree to merger and draft MOU.
•July 6, 2020-Hemet / Murrieta SWAT is renamed Southwest Cities SWAT
•MOU establishes key Guidelines for Tactical Consolidation
•Training
•Team Structure
•Incident Command
•Liability
Memorandum of Understanding
•Budgeted to equip four officers in the first year
•Continued Training & Development is budgeted
within the current training fund
•Future funding will be budgeted for additional
equipment and training
Fiscal Impact