The Special Operations Division encompasses the Canine Section, SWAT Team, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Marine Patrol, Special Response Unit, Underwater Search and Recovery, and Search and Rescue.

Dec 20, 2023 · Fairfax County, VA — The FCPD’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team of our Special Operations Division has been handling high-risk and critical incidents for nearly 50 years.

Jan 27, 2025 · Officers from the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) entered a house while serving a narcotics search warrant and related arrest warrants. They were confronted by David Vo, 24, of Falls Church, who brandished an assault style weapon. A SWAT officer discharged his weapon striking Vo in the lower body.

May 11, 2012 · At a recent session of the Fairfax County Citizen’s Police Academy, Sgt. Jeff Reiff described the activities of the county’s full-time SWAT team, which is part of the Operations Support Bureau based in a nondescript building on Woodburn Road in Annandale.

Jan 6, 2020 · The primary mission of the SWAT Team is to conduct high-risk operations, which include the service of high-risk search warrants, barricade response, hostage barricade response, active shooter response, protection details, and providing reaction teams to high threat events occurring in the county.

More than a dozen members of the Fairfax County Police SWAT Team spent the week getting some special training from special agents with the Diplomatic Security Service.

Mar 29, 2023 · A Hybla Valley standoff eclipsed the 30-hour mark Wednesday evening, as Fairfax County Police SWAT and crisis negotiators continue to try and speak with a woman they say is barricaded in a car...

Mar 30, 2023 · FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — A Fairfax County standoff between an armed woman and SWAT and crisis negotiators, which eclipsed the 35-hour mark late Wednesday night, is finally over. The...

Apr 18, 2023 · FAIRFAX, Va. (7News) — For the first time following a more than 30-hour barricade incident that shut down a busy Virginia highway, 7News spoke with the commander of the Fairfax County...

Dec 7, 2022 · A dog was shot and killed by Fairfax County police during a search of a house in Herndon this morning. Officers with the Fairfax County Police Department’s SWAT team were serving a search warrant in the 1500 block of Powells Place Tavern, a neighborhood of single-family homes near Dranesville Elementary School, according to the department.