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Officer wreck offers rare glimpse inside Austin SWAT

The Austin Statesman published a story by Tony Plohetski the other day revealing some interesting tidbits about staffing of SWAT teams after an Austin SWAT member totaled his city vehicle driving home drunk from a football-watching party with fellow SWAT members and other officers ("SWAT officer's wreck spurs changes in elite Austin unit," Dec. 11). Reported Plohetski:With investigations still pending, department officials said last week that they are already beginning to make changes in the unit's operations.Effective immediately, SWAT team members no longer will be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year-round, and forced to seek a supervisor's permission to alter that schedule. Instead, every third week, groups of them will be placed on other police duties and won't be on call when not working ? giving officers some downtime when off duty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 15, 2010 (boomark / email).