The Huron Citizen’s Police Academy back in week Four got a very basic overview of what the Department’s Special Response team does and an up close and personal look at some of their specialized equipment. On Tuesday, the class got much more…
The S-R-T performed two building entries for the class, the first of which you just heard. For the second class members stood in the living room of an abandoned mobile home inside the Huron Police Department’s gun range that is used for training in. Officer Cory Borg deployed a flash-bang grenade so the students could feel the shock and light of the device going off. S-R-T Commander Kevin Van Deipen walked the class through specialty weapons used by the group, including two U-M-P’s or fully automatic sub-machine guns…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/05/hpda-srt2.mp3|titles=hpda-srt2]Van Diepen says the suppression barrel took a number of months for the Department to bring into the country from overseas, but it’s very beneficial…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/05/hpda-srt3.mp3|titles=hpda-srt3]Officer Adam Doerr fired both buckshot and slug shotgun rounds during the shooting demonstration as well. The Police Academy returns to a regular meeting time on Thursday night where the class will take part in traffic stop exercises.