The Formation and Deployment of SWAT in the Ivory Towers

<p>The purpose of this study is to investigate the formation of SWAT teams on college campuses and some of the reasoning behind their deployments. The study provides an overview of the early formation of SWAT, policing in a college setting and finally the creation of such teams that began in municipal policing but have migrated into campus law enforcement. </p> <p>Data for this study was collected using a 20 question survey sent to college campuses that are members of IACLEA or International association of college law enforcement administrators. The return rate was 37% and the surveys were analyzed using SPSS version 20. </p> <p>The results provide some support for the idea that campus SWAT teams were not formed for the traditional role of SWAT, such as the barricaded subject, terrorist incident but for high risk warrant service, drug incidents. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Justice Studies

Grantor dc:publisher

Eastern Kentucky University

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Grant, Paul

• campus
• college
• deployments
• police
• SWAT
• university
• Criminology and Criminal Justice

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2015 Paul Grant

Repository record dc:identifier

https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/264

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1262