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The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department is the primary provider of law enforcement services for Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County. Davidson County is located in Tennessee and covers a total area of 526.1 square miles that encompasses everything from high density urban locations to rural areas. Nashville is the capital of Tennessee, and home to the Grand Ole Opry, the Tennessee Titans, and the Nashville Predators. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Flag of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A police officer is a warranted employee of a police service. ... Chief of Police is the title typically given to the head of a police department, particularly in the United States and Canada. ... Davidson County is the name of several counties in the United States: Davidson County, North Carolina Davidson County, Tennessee This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ... The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio program broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, and televised on Great American Country network. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Nashville Predators are a professional ice hockey team based in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

Composition and organization

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The department comprises over 1900 personnel, including over 1300 full-time sworn members. The department responds to more than 750,000 police calls per year on average. The most recent census ranked Nashville as the 21st largest U.S. city. In the year 2000 the Department of Justice ranked the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department as the 36th largest U.S. police department. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. ...

The department is configured in a decentralized format, providing its precinct commanders with control of their own resources to address issues and crime trends in their areas. The department is divided into six precincts: North, South, East, West, Central, and Hermitage. A precinct is designed similarly to a medium-sized police department, with uniform patrol, undercover officers, directed patrol officers, plainclothes detectives, and other specialties. A precinct is a space enclosed by the walls or other boundaries of a particular place or building, or by an arbitrary and imaginary line drawn around it. ...

The precincts are supported by Administrative Services, Investigative Services, and Special Operations Division personnel, all in an effort to deter, detect, prevent, and respond to criminal trends in the precinct areas. The department's entire focus is on how to quickly identify trends and implement initiatives that address them.

S.W.A.T. Team

In 1976 the Metropolitan Nashville Government formed a highly flexible mobile strike force to concentrate on police problems that might otherwise go unchecked in Nashville due to the limitations imposed on field personnel in supplying day-to-day services. This early concept became the foundation for the department’s Metro Unique Situation Team, known then as M.U.S.T. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...

This team was placed under the direct control of the Metro Police Department’s Training Academy Director and its members were appointed from the training academy’s roll. In 1979 the team was renamed the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (S.W.A.T.) and in 1983, its membership was opened to personnel throughout the department.

SWAT members are specialists selected, trained, and equipped to resolve high-risk tactical problems. SWAT personnel assist in the department’s response to unusual and high-risk tactical situations. The members have primary assignments from virtually all sections within the department and come together for training and operations. Their constant specialty training and flexibility are the key elements in keeping abreast of a rapidly changing society and the complex problems it generates. The team conducts over 125 SWAT-related missions per year.

The team responds to several categories of tactical situations including:

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• Barricaded person situations
• Sniper/counter-sniper situations
• Hostage situations
• High-risk warrant service operations
• Protecting high value persons and property
• Search and rescue operations
• High-risk tactical surveillance and/or narcotics enforcement operations
• Tactical waterborne operations

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• High angle, elevated, and aviation operations
• Covert/undercover tactical operations
• Hazardous material, clandestine lab and weapons of mass destruction situations
• Special circumstances such as crowd control and rural searches

In 2004, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department activated a portion of its SWAT team members to a full-time status. The unit is a plainclothes versatile SWAT unit with its primary focus as combating high-risk suspects who have outstanding warrants. The Special Response Tactical Unit is staffed by active SWAT Team members. Based on the unit's primary tasks of tracking down violent repeat offenders, service of high-risk search/arrest warrants, and assistance with preplanned high-risk operations, the unit is flexible in its shifts and days off. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 472 pixels Full resolution (1938 × 1143 pixel, file size: 946 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo taken by SD Lewis I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 472 pixels Full resolution (1938 × 1143 pixel, file size: 946 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo taken by SD Lewis I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 269 pixels Full resolution (2026 × 681 pixel, file size: 204 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo taken by SD Lewis I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 269 pixels Full resolution (2026 × 681 pixel, file size: 204 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo taken by SD Lewis I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...

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External links

• Metropolitan Nashville Police website
• Nashville, Tennessee, website

References

• Ashmore, Eddie (2006). TENNESSEE LAWMAN History of the Men and Women behind the Badge. Turner Publishing. ISBN 1-59652-247-X.
• Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (2006). Metropolitan Nashville Police Annual Report. Nashville: Metro Government Printing Office.
• Metropolitan Nashville Police (2007) Web site http://www.police.nashville.org/
• United States Census Bureau (2006). Population Estimates.
• United States Department of Justice (2000). Local Police Department Estimates.