LAPD SWAT Officers conduct SIPT (SWAT Insertion Platform Tactics) training. SIPT facilitates rapid insertion of numerous SWAT Officers into a potential tactical situation across the City of Los Angeles. | LAPD Headquarters

Last week, members of the LAPD Headquarters SWAT team joined our Special Response Team for a week-long cross-training. Being two full-time SWAT teams, this joint venture helps to familiarize these units with best practices that can be shared. The LAPD SWAT team and MDPD SRT have over 100 years of combined history, and we were pleased to host them as our guests here in Miami-Dade. | Miami Dade Sheriff’s Office

Retired LAPD SWAT Sergeant Mike Albanese tells Josh Mankiewicz about the LAPD standoff with O.J. Simpson in 1994. | Dateline NBC