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 To view meeting: https://youtu.be/HZoaEVXxhmM January 17, 2023 — Detective Derek Hartman with the York County Quick Response Team spoke at our weekly breakfast meeting. York County has been providing specialized training to a select group of law enforcement officers since 2002.The goal is to utilize these officers in the resolution of high-risk and volatile situations. “Our mission is to support the police on high profile, important incidents where they don’t have the resources or the knowledge to resolve, we come in and help out with that," said Detective Hartman. The team has roughly 25 tactical operators and about 20 negotiators. When they get called in on a part-time basis to deal with these high profile incidents, they could deal with any number of different things, somebody in crisis, a barricaded subject, a person with a high-risk warrant, something along those lines that we would be called to resolve. The tactical members train twice a month and negotiators once a month. A lot of the training is based on tactics where our guys go and learn specific tactics to be able to move through buildings, do rural tracking. They also do a lot of training for equipment and breaching and things along those lines. The officers in this unit are dedicated to protecting York County citizens and assisting local law enforcement agencies during critical incidents. “When the police call us, it means that there’s a big problem and we’re the guys that are trained to deal with it in the best way for everybody, including the police, including the citizens that we're called to help that day," said Hartman. A lot of the response team’s funding comes from the York County commissioners through the District Attorney’s office, but they still need to depend on community contributions. |