heres some more pics of HPD, in 1946 a 7 man quick respone unit known as the metro squad was created to combat gang violence, in 1972 they expaned the duties so the became tod-tactical operations division, 1988 the became what they are today ssd-special service division, swat which is part of ssd, prime job is to handle dangerous situations such as hostage,sniper and barricaded suspect incidents and inter agency asst marijuana eradication, airport drug interdiction, service of serch warrants,HPDS SSD also does Bomb squad and k-9