Boomtown USA Will Get Special Ops Team Now That Things have Quieted Down -- March 17, 2016

The Williston Herald reports:

Williams County will soon have its own specially trained group of law enforcement officers armed with the skills and resources to respond to a number of different emergencies.  

The sheriff’s office is forming a 20-member special operations and response team, designed to handle dangerous situations, offer help during natural disasters and even act as extra security when the need arises.

The joint effort includes members of the Williams County Sheriff’s Office, Williston Police Department, Northwest Narcotics Task Force and may extend to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

Pretty cool.

• back-up from SWAT teams out of Minot and Dickinson
• SWAT training in Idaho, Minnesota, and New Jersey (Idaho?)
• CSI: Miami, Las Vegas, NY on rolodex
• $429,000 armored vehicle designed to withstand 0.50 caliber rounds; paid for by Bismarck
• annual training and equipment: $50,000

With drones out of Grand Forks, helicopters may not be needed:

Ride of the Valkyries

For the archives (one can get almost any spin on crime statistics as one wants):

• North Dakota, 2015, annual crime report. Attorney General Stenejhem
• North Dakota crime, watch dog 
• request by ND state to have The Huffington Post, others withdraw incorrect story