VIDEO: Roving SWAT officers on patrol in Bellevue

Bellevue Police now have the SWAT team patrolling the downtown core. The department formed the downtown unit this month to offer some high powered back up to patrol officers.

[@pamallinder3287]

Thank you

[@pamallinder3287]

I'm happy to live in Bellevue, they keep me safe

[@pamallinder3287]

Hopefully this year as well

[@pamallinder3287]

Loving my police

[@pamallinder3287]

It was weird last year, on the seattle bus. Some guy was trying to sell me stolen clothes. He nice clothes. It was during Christmas time. I wouldn't pay attention to him, so he said that I must have a recorder in my bag. But he managed to steal these clothes with the clips on them. He managed to take them off and leave them on the bus seat. He got off on Jackson. I told the bus driver that many of them were on his bus seat.

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3 yrs ago

[@b_uppy]

These guys seem nice but SWAT for shoplifting???

[@b_uppy]

@SQUAD
SWAT bomb techs (for example) handling shoplifters seems like overkill. They certainly don't seem like they would necessarily have the skills of "officer friendly" to interact with the general public while searching out perps. It certainly is a good idea to keep officers fully utilized, just seems like overkill.
Maybe their ability to adapt prevents them from having the kinds of incidents/problems that regular officers fall prey to.

[@Sean_Does_Everything]

be even worse if it was FBI

[@shthappens8923]

@Christmas When SWAT teams aren't responding or conducting raids, they are patrol officers until there needed.

[@jackrussell1601]

They literally said for organized crime in the video not someone’s granny stealing socks

[@b_uppy]

@@jackrussell1601
That's not a SWAT job, despite if it is suspected of being part of a ring...

[@24barnaby]

"elite officers"........what a joke. Bellevue trying to justify having a SWAT team. Not enough work for the team.

[@pamallinder3287]

What no

[@icelandviking1961]

SWAT are not supper cops.