2012 Annual Report - Hamburg Township

Special Response Team
In the summer of 2011, three officers from the Hamburg Township Police Department began
training with the members of the Brighton Special Response Team. The Purpose of the training
was to determine the feasibility of sharing resources in order to have a Special Response Team
comprised of City of Brighton and Hamburg Township police officers. The experiment was a
success and eventually two additional Hamburg Township officers joined the team as tactical
officers and another Hamburg Township officer became a negotiator.
In May of 2012, the Hamburg Township Board of Trustees and the Brighton City Council
formalized the arrangement by entering into a formal Mutual Aid Agreement covering the
Special Response Team. The Team was activated on three separate occasions in 2012, twice for
incidents within the City of Brighton and once for an incident in Hamburg Township. Each
incident involved armed barricaded subjects and all three incidents were resolved successfully by
the Team.
Hamburg Township SRT Members
Special Response Team officers in training
Special Response Team officers take suspect
into custody in Brighton on July 23, 2012
Special Response Team officers on the scene of
an incident in Brighton on August 20, 2012
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