REVERE - Special Weapons and Tactical teams must train for various scenarios of danger and this past Thursday they used a vacant house in North Revere as their training ground.
Team leaders were disappointed that an armored truck was not available for the all-day training on remote Columbia Street. The truck would have been used to rip the front of the house off with chains — something SWAT teams across the country are trained to do.
Instead, 22 members of the Revere, Everett and Malden police departments’ SWAT teams broke windows, busted through doors using battering rams and threw a real “flash-bang” smoke grenade through a living room window with deafening results. The intention of the explosion is to distract the suspect inside and allow police to move in. Dummies were placed in the house as the targets officers were to apprehend.
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