By Emilie Parten, Reporter for The Navco Chronicle
Roughly three months ago, the Navarro County Sheriff’s department purchased a new Bearcat for their SWAT team. The new vehicle is 20 years more advanced than the original, has a larger carrying capacity as well as many other functions.
Sheriff Tanner called the new Bearcat “a potentially life-saving piece of equipment” because this new vehicle has “hydraulic breaching technology” which saves the SWAT team from potentially hazardous and life-threatening injuries. The original Bearcat will still be used in addition to this new unit.
The SWAT vehicles are utilized in many high-risk situations such as barricaded individuals, hostage situations and suicide preventions and Navarro County’s SWAT Team is a regional response team, often sent out of county to aid in high-risk situations.
The SWAT Team was first deployed in 1998 in a donated armored car which was utilized for several years before an asset seizure on a narcotics investigation in Silver City levied enough seized funds to purchase the original bearcat.
The new addition to the SWAT team was purchased via a generous grant and was on order for a year before it was delivered. The SWAT team is very excited to break in the new recruit!
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