In an effort to enhance the overall effectiveness of law enforcement, the Caswell County Sheriff’s Office has established the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team. The purpose of this team of eight men is to handle unusual activities and problems including but not limited to hostage incidents, armed barricaded persons, sniper incidents, aggravated suicide attempts, high risk building searches, high risk search and/or arrest warrant service, crowd control, surveillance, security and other potentially life threatening occurrences which exceed routine responsibilities of on duty patrol officers.

The safety and freedom of individuals affected directly or indirectly by such high risk incidents will be the ultimate goal of the Caswell County Sheriff’s Office when responding to and resolving these types of incidents. The Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team’s operation concept is containment and apprehension. This involves locating and isolating suspects, evacuating the area threatened and utilizing special tactics to effect an arrest in a manner that affords minimum exposure to danger to officer’s and citizens who may be directly or indirectly involved.