Special Operations

The special operations division consists of units made up of officers who receive specialized training to handle high risk situations as they come up.

Valley Special Response Team

The Auburn Police Department partners with Federal Way, Kent, Renton, Tukwila, Des Moines, and the Port of Seattle police departments to provide a combined Regional Special Response Team to support their respective communities. They provide extraordinary law enforcement response to incidents such as high risk warrant service, barricaded subject, hostage, and sniper situations. Each agency staffs and equips a team. All agencies share in joint operational expenses. In addition to intense ongoing training; the team responds to 40-60 call outs per year.

Valley Crisis Communications Unit (Negotiators)

Just like the SWAT team the Auburn Police Department partners with Federal Way, Kent, Renton, Tukwila, Des Moines, and the Port of Seattle Police Department to provide negotiations at special response type events. The primary mission of the Valley Crisis Communications Unit (VCCU) is to provide support to other elements of the participating Agency’s Department in hostage/barricaded/suicidal subject(s) situations, through the deployment of specially trained officers skilled in Crisis Management and Hostage Negotiations, with the goal of attaining a peaceful resolution through communication. These specially trained officers will respond to Incidents involving, or potentially involving, a high risk to the public, police officers, or suspects.

Valley Civil Disturbance Unit (VCDU)

The Auburn Police Department partners with Federal Way, Kent, Renton, Tukwila, and the Port of Seattle Police Departments to provide a well trained and equipped civil disturbance/civil disobedience response for South King County and the region. The overall size of the VCDU is in excess of 80 officers and has a fully equipped “Cut Team”, skilled and equipped to defeat obstacles and locking devices commonly used by demonstrators. The VCDU trains regularly and has deployed in support of WTO and recent anti-war demonstrations in Olympia and Tacoma.

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