Legal Opinion
Brassinga v. City of Mountain View
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 20, 1998No. H015775PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MIHARA, J.
The Mountain View, Palo Alto and Los Altos Police Departments each had a special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team. In order to ensure an adequate response to “incidents,” the three departments cooperated to form the “North County Regional” SWAT team (hereafter the Regional Team) which was composed of all three departments’ SWAT teams. The Regional Team trained together and responded to incidents as a single team, although the members of the Regional Team remained employed by their individual departments.
Regional Team training exercises often utilized the services of “role…
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