That is probably their entire police department, not their swat team.
Uvalde is a small town, I'd be surprised if they have more than 12 full time sworn.
And if that is their swat team, they arent going to be very capable with 9. Between a qrf, entry team, gas team, perimeter, bodies get used up quickly.
40 on the force.
Ok 40 sworn. 25% (10) are desk riders probably, so down to 30. Detectives are probably 4 to 5, so down to 25 for patrol? That's assuming they don't send any bodies to be tfo's or specialties like juvenile services etc.
So if they’re working 12s you have a minimum of two day shifts (fast end/slow end) and two night shifts. So 6 officers per shift with a supervisor...so 7. With nobody sick or on vacation.
Oh and a part-time 9 person tac team that are your patrol/detectives too.
Not bad for a 16k person town.
It was a [bleep] show from the top down. Eventually common sense hit somebody on scene and they did what needed to be done.
I've been through multiple active shooter trainings. At every one whether it's small scale inter-agency or large scale multi-agency, fire, ems, training, single person deployment is always discussed and done. Take the fight to the suspect(s), at a minimum they are now focused on you and not innocents.
