LASD Update Special Enforcement Bureau Maritime Cadre: SWAT on the Water

LASD Update: Single segment on the Special Enforcement Bureau
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has a special weapons team called the S.E.B., or Special Enforcement Bureau.
The Bureau was formed in 1958 as the Special Enforcement Detail, and has transcended into one of the country's premier tactical units. Recently, SEB commemorated its 56th Anniversary.
Present day, SEB is comprised of three details: Special Enforcement Detail (SED) or Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT), responsible for handling barricades, hostage situations and other high-risk operations, as well as providing security for dignitaries and political officials; Canine Services Detail (CSD) responsible for assisting patrol stations by searching for armed and dangerous suspects with the use of highly specialized dogs; Emergency Services Detail (ESD) conducts search and rescue, dive and maritime operations.
All details work as one unit during tactical operations providing the community with the specialties each detail brings to the operation. Our goal is to follow in the footsteps of our predecessors by being at the forefront of innovative ideas and to employ cutting edge technology to ensure the safest outcome to critical incidents. The use of tactical paramedics and insertion of specialized canines trained in tactical movement and explosive detection are innovations developed at SEB. SEB also works with its port partners, United States Coast Guard, Los Angeles Port Police Department, Long Beach Police Department, and other partners utilizing a multi-jurisdictional approach to conduct daily operations. SEB recently deployed the nation's newest sophisticated patrol boat to defend against terrorism and criminal activity. As part of our maritime operations, SEB patrols over 800 square miles of unincorporated Los Angeles County open-ocean and two islands, assisting the Coast Guard with local law enforcement matters.
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department participated in the Offshore Platform Security Threat Awareness and Response Program (OPSTAR 13) maritime exercise along with many federal, state and local agencies. The OPSTAR 13 exercise explored the homeland security, homeland defense, emergency response, and emergency management issues presented by security threats to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Southern California region.
* Exercise goals: Reinforce federal, state, local, and private sector partnerships.
Strengthen existing emergency response and management plans, systems, and capabilities applicable to offshore platform response operations.
Evaluate interoperable systems to enhance maritime domain awareness, threat identification and early warning, and interoperable communication.
Identify future planning, acquisition, training, and exercise needs related to the integrated response to an offshore platform incident.
Provide the justification and framework for a sustained government-and industry-focused offshore platform safety and security program.
SEB Website: lasd.co/1i8uTe2
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