Goodyear's SWAT team is back up – with new standards

The Goodyear Police Department’s SWAT team is back up and running with “revamped” standards after a three-month shut down stemming from an I-Team investigation.

“Overall, I believe placing the team in non-operational status was completely reasonable and effective,” Deputy Chief David Farrow wrote in a memo on July 29 to Goodyear Chief of Police Santiago Rodriguez.

The I-Team’s investigation found irregularities in the Goodyear team’s training, including handcuffing and blindfolding team recruits and a secret “initiation day.”

12 News learned of the problems in March. The team was taken offline for a review on May 1.
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